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
Tibbs and a few dozen other outlaw clans. Violence was everywhere
Crime was an unavoidable fact of life. However, his real education
in Plaistow taught him that the real essence of illegal capitalism
is to be found amongst the poor bloody infantry of the crime world;
the jump up merchants, lorry highjackers, warehouse thieves, and
middle-market drug dealers. These are the people with whom he has
spent most of his professional life, and along with more exalted
villains such as Mad Frankie Frazer and Charlie Richardson, these
are the characters who will feature in the book, weaving the
stories of these fearsome gangsters with the history and evolution
of the UK underworld.
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