Organized crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the economic and social costs are estimated at upwards of £20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7). Organized Crime: Policing Illegal Business Entrepreneurialism offers a unique approach to the tackling of this area by exploring how it works through the conceptual framework of a business enterprise.

Structured in three parts, the book progresses systematically through key areas and concepts integral to dealing effectively with the myriad contemporary forms of organized crime and provides insights on where, how and when to disrupt and dismantle a criminal business activity through current policing practices and policies. From the initial set up of a crime business through to the long term forecasting for growth and profitability, the authors dissect and analyse the different phases of the business enterprise and propose a 'Knowledge-Managed Policing' (KMP) approach to criminal entrepreneurialism.

Combining conceptual and practical issues, this is a must-have reference for all police professionals, policing academics and government policy makers who are interested in a Strategy-led, Intelligence supported, Knowledge-Managed approach to policing illegal business entrepreneurialism.

About the Author:
Geoff Dean is Associate Professor in the School of Justice Studies in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He specializes in police investigative thinking and knowledge management, forensic and investigative psychology, criminal/offender profiling, justice and human rights, terrorism and security. He is registered as an international expert with EUROPOL at the Knowledge Management Centre, The Hague in the Netherlands and consults widely with various police services, institutes, and universities in Asia, Europe and North America. He is also a former police trainer.

Ivar Fahsing is Assistant Professor and Detective Superintendent at the Norwegian Police University College. Before this he spent 15 years as a chief superintendent in the Oslo Police and the National Crime Squad in Norway. In that time, he led numerous internationally-linked organized crime investigations.

Petter Gottschalk is professor of knowledge management at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, Norway. He specializes in knowledge work, management of knowledge workers, management of police investigations, leadership roles, knowledge strategies, value configurations, resource-based strategy and knowledge management systems. Prior to this, Dr. Gottschalk had several executive positions in business and public administration.