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Books narrated by Dick Hobbs

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  • The Business

    Talking with thieves, gangsters and dealers

    by Dick Hobbs ...
    Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many.When he was growing up, the East End was rocking with dock strikes, thievery and the kind of family values practiced by the Krays the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lush Life

    Constructing Organized Crime in the UK

    by Dick Hobbs ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK opens 'the box marked do not open, too difficult to deal with', in the words of one Assistant Chief Constable, to explore the contested notion of British organized crime. The first book to trace the history and policing of British organized crime, it addresses how the interlocking processes of de-industrialisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

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    The Business

    Talking with thieves, gangsters and dealers

    by Dick Hobbs ...
    Narrated by Dick Hobbs ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many.When he was growing up, the East End was rocking with dock strikes, thievery and the kind of family values practiced by the Krays the ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mischief, Morality and Mobs

    Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Pearson

    Edited by Dick Hobbs ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Ethnography
    Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory, social history, criminology and sociology. In particular, his work has had a huge impact upon studies of youth, youth culture and drugs.This collection is made up of contributions from scholars producing empirical work on some of the key ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

    Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

    by Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffee, Dick Hobbs ...
    Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning, one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Policing the 2012 London Olympics

    Legacy and Social Exclusion

    by Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Dick Hobbs ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Ethnography
    The summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world’s biggest single-city cultural event. While the Olympics and other sport mega-events have received growing levels of academic investigation from a variety of disciplinary approaches, relatively little is known about how such occasions are experienced directly by local host communities and publics.This ethnography examines the everyday ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Principles of Marketing

    by Gary Armstrong, Lloyd Harris, Hongwei He, Philip Kotler ...
    Thoroughly revised to reflect the major trends impacting contemporary marketing, the 8th Edition is packed with examples illustrating how companies use new digital technologies to maximize customer engagement and shape brand conversations, experiences, and communities.New coverage and fresh examples throughout the text addressing the latest developments in customer engagement tools, practices and ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Facial Recognition Surveillance

    Policing and Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Pete Fussey, Daragh Murray ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    Scanning millions of faces each year, facial recognition technology (FRT) has become one of today's fastest growing and most controversial AI-driven surveillance technologies. Based on rare ethnographic access to police FRT deployments, Facial Recognition Surveillance: Policing and Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence delves into the profound impact of FRT on policing practices, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Maximum Surveillance Society

    The Rise of CCTV

    by Gary Armstrong, Clive Norris ...
    The use of Closed-Circuit Television, or CCTV, has dramatically increased over the past decade, but its presence is often so subtle as to go unnoticed. Should we unthinkingly accept that increased surveillance is in the public's best interests, or does this mean that ‘Big Brother' is finally watching us? This book asks provocative questions about the rise of the maximum surveillance society. Is ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Authentic Tawney

    A New Interpretation of the Political Thought of R.H. Tawney

    by Gary Armstrong ...
    R.H. Tawney is an iconic thinker in British left-wing circles, whose writings during the early-mid 20th century helped to forge the direction of democratic socialist thinking and Labour Party policies.This book provides a fresh and accessible guide to the ideas of Tawney for new readers and to set straight the record of what Tawney’s political thought really is, warts and all, in place of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Trafficking in the EU

    Policing and Protecting Europe’s Most Vulnerable

    by Pete Fussey, Paddy Rawlinson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Drawing on empirical research conducted with police in the UK and Romania, Child Trafficking in the EU explores the way in which the ‘who’ and ‘how’ we police and protect as trafficker and trafficked is related to Western notions of innocence, guilt, childhood, and of the status of ‘deserving’ victim.This book progresses a new theoretical space by linking its analysis to sociologies of mobility, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Global and Local Football

    Politics and Europeanization on the Fringes of the EU

    by Gary Armstrong, Jon P. Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game?Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football. ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD