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The Messy Reality Of Organised Crime Research, Mark Findlay, Nafis Hanif
The Messy Reality Of Organised Crime Research, Mark Findlay, Nafis Hanif
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The analysis starts out by confronting and exposing the ideological motivations for dualism in conventional organised crime research. In order to suggest a cognitive pathway beyond this restrictive normative frame, it is essential to appreciate its potency and resilience. Law enforcement language buoyed up by popular culture representations of gangs, syndicates and crime bosses have become the accepted starting point for much research in the field. Research from this perspective, we suggest, plays its own part in organised crime mystification and as such retards the critical utility of enterprise theory. Next the paper shows how distracted and distorted theorising infects …