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This chapter offers insight into post-war Birmingham, new waves of working-class masculinity, organised crime and conceptual ambiguities. Furthermore, this chapter also considers homicide broadly as well as within the context of criminal networks. It does this by drawing upon the different forms of homicide, and argues how homicide conducted by members of illicit networks in not necessarily restricted to one form or type, but in some cases a fusion of two or more. The term ‘organised crime’ has been around for over a century, however, to date there is still no set universal definition of the concept. Thus, I offer a critical definition, which I believe justifies and strengthens some of ongoing scholarly debates about organised crime. The chapter concludes by considering the keystones theories that will help make sense of violent practice within criminal groups.
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Rahman, M. (2019). History, Homicide, Organised Crime, and Theory. In: Homicide and Organised Crime. Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16253-5_2
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