“In Homicide and Organised Crime, Mohammed Rahman offers readers a rare glimpse inside the hidden world of extra-legal violence. Biographical case studies and rich narratives from several underworld actors shed light on the complex mechanisms behind street justice and contract killings, whilst Rahman’s own ‘dash-cam ethnography’, a research innovation, helps contextualise and reconstruct the violence discussed. In a world obsessed with sensationalised true crime stories, Rahman lets violentoffenders speak their truth, unscripted, which yields important new insights. Students and scholars of criminology will delight in this book.” (Professor James Densley, Metropolitan State University, USA)

“There is an audience for narratives of mayhem and murder. Mohammed Rahman’s book is distinctive, in that he goes beyond the spectacular and the popular to drill down into a patch of the West Midlands, England.  He also connects back those local particularities to global changes and wider constructions of masculinities. Furthermore, he mirrors some of the nefarious street-level activities of the men he investigates with his own ‘dash-cam ethnography’.  This allows him, and us, to ride along or just drive by” (Dr Nic Groombridge, University of South Wales, UK)