If you live in a suburb in the UK, it is seemingly a possibility, according to a recent study that gained the honour of being reviewed at Improbable Research:
http://www.improbable.com/2014/01/29/a-scholarly-classification-of-british-contract-killers/
The full article is at the moment freely available, here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hojo.12063/full
PDF:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hojo.12063/pdf
The abstract:
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This exploratory article presents a typology of British ‘hitmen’ as identified within newspaper reports about contract killing. Demographic and criminological data related to these hitmen and their victims are analysed and, on the basis of this analysis, a typology of British hitmen is developed. Our typology suggests that British hitmen are: ‘Novices’; ‘Dilettantes’; ‘Journeymen’; or ‘Masters’. It is hoped that this typology will be of use to law enforcement.
and final sentences of the Conclusion:
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Finally, the sites of British hits were not usually bars, clubs, or casinos but were far more likely to be the shopping centre, or the suburb in which the intended target lived. As a result, members of the public were all too often witnesses to a hit. Hits in this respect were not unusual and extraordinary, but rather commonplace and ordinary. So, too, the motives for a hit being contracted were mundane. Frankly, the motivations to pay a hitman the relatively small amount to carry out a murder were depressingly banal. Husbands and wives fell out with each other, or wanted to gain early access to life assurance policies; business partners decided to go, or wanted to go, their separate ways; business deals fell apart; and young gang members wanted to impress other, older, gang members with their bravado. All of this is far removed from the media portrayal of the fictional hitman who, on the evidence presented here, has little, or no connection, to his British reality.
are however enough to appreciate fully the potentialities of this research paper.
jaclaz
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