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‘Endemic to the species’: ordering the ‘other’ via organised crime

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  • Dick Hobbs
  • Georgios A. Antonopoulos

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The United States has been the prime mover in the establishment of both the concept of organised crime and the use of the concept in its attempt to establish global hegemony, in which law enforcement became a little more than a front for a government-backed central casting agency, stereotyping both heroes and villains. This article offers an account of how the ‘Other’ has been used as prism for the construction of organised crime primarily in the United States and how this construction, as a franchise, has been exported on the international level and on heterogeneous criminal landscapes.

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  • Dick Hobbs & Georgios A. Antonopoulos, 2013. "‘Endemic to the species’: ordering the ‘other’ via organised crime," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(1), pages 27-51, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fglcxx:v:14:y:2013:i:1:p:27-51
    DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2012.753324
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    1. Robert McLean & Grace Robinson & James Densley, 2018. "The Rise of Drug Dealing in the Life of the North American Street Gang," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-10, September.

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