Doing the Business Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London

"Doing the Business can be unreservedly recommended to lay readers for its intelligence, verve and penetrating analysis of police work. For the same reasons, of course, the book will be popular with students of criminology, social work, social history and sociology. But to students the book offers much more than a satisfying literary and academic experience-it is excellent value in terms of the wide range of topics it covers ... read it! It's a winner." Pat Carlen, University of Keele, Centre for Criminology refreshingly different and well worth a read Police History Society Newsletter an affectionate and highly entertaining portrait of East Enders. It is written with immense charm and wit ... Immensely enjoyable, difficult to put down. P. A. J. Waddington, British Journal of Criminology