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Professor Dick Hobbs on Disorganised Crime in new book 'The Business'

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Oct 29, 2021
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Professor Dick Hobbs grew up in the east London borough of Newham and his new book The Business is a love letter to a world of skullduggery that changed with the decline of the docks, gentrification and the rise of the drug dealer.

The unconventional academic fielded a few questions from The Upsetter about the changing face of so-called organised crime …

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