Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction, by Georgios A. Antonopoulos & Georgios Papanicolaou, Oxford University Press. Book Review

It is a difficult task to condense a topic worthy of serious academic debate into a palm-sized book, it is a mammoth task to do so for organised crime. In their book, Antonopoulos & Papanicolaou managed to do just this - in a reader-friendly way, too. As with most books on organised crime authored by academics, the thorny issues of definition and conceptual clarity of organised crime do not escape the authors’ attention. This book is highly recommended to anyone who wishes to not only gain a concise and credible overview of what organised crime has been, is, and does, but also to understand the theoretical and practical issues relating to the various contexts and dimensions of organised crime