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Understanding Mafia Networks

Author : Roberto Musotto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429511787
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Mafia Networks written by Roberto Musotto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sicilian Mafia is the most famous criminal organisation in the world. While its own code of honour, rustic chivalry and violence methods have been adopted by other illicit groups, very little is known about how the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, is actually organised and embedded in its territory. Who runs the day-to-day operations? What does it take for a Mafioso to raise the ranks and become a boss? How can the organisation protect itself and re-group after arrests? This book explores for the first time the structure of this criminal organisation through the lens of spatial and social network analysis and answers these questions. This is done by looking at the relationships of 176 members of the organisation that have been recently involved in building the Cupola, the highest ruling and judicial body in the organisation. Starting from the arrest warrant that uncovered this criminal restructuring, a method and several alternatives are offered, explained and commented on how to analyse and visualise criminal networks. The book confirms the assumption that the Sicilian Mafia is a criminal organisation that is deeply rooted in its territory. Mafiosi live, work and interact only in the remit of their own neighbourhood. Bosses are evasive, even to their own affiliates, and mid-level members are in charge of keeping the whole network operational. This book is particularly useful to students, researchers and law enforcement agencies that look at new ways to understand and disrupt the operations and structure of criminal organisations around the world.

Understanding Mafia

Author :
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526185717
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Mafia written by and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia. Separate chapters are devoted to the culture from which the mafia emerged, the economic and business activities in which it is now engaged, its relations with politics and politicians, as well as its structure and historical evolution. There are portraits of prominent mafiosi as well as of the people and organizations that have struggled against mafia crime. The individual pieces come from a diverse range of sources, including newspapers, historical and sociological works. There is an introduction in English, as well as a full vocabulary and a glossary of terms associated with the mafia.

Understanding the Mafia

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719049002
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Mafia written by Joseph Farrell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume is an anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia. Separate chapters are devoted to the culture from which the mafia emerged, the economic and business activities in which it is now engaged, its relations with politics and politicians, as well as its structure and historical evolution. There are portraits of prominent mafiosi as well as of the people and organisations that have struggled against mafia crime. The individual pieces come from the most diverse sources, including newspapers, historical and sociological works. There is an introduction in English as well as a full vocabulary and a glossary of terms associated with the mafia. From these composite elements a complete and rounded picture of the mafia is constructed, making it an invaluable text for those interested in Italian culture.

Understanding Organized Crime

Author : Stephen L. Mallory
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449622585
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Organized Crime written by Stephen L. Mallory and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the world is facing an increasing impact from established organized crime, emerging transnational organized crime, and gangs that requires an understanding of who and what these organizations are and how they achieve their goals. Updated to include new and relevant research and statistics, Understanding Organized Crime, Second Edition provides students with a better understanding of how and why these criminal groups continue to dominate the world of crime and what law enforcement must do to address this threat. Written by a leading expert in the field and based on his experience and academic research, Understanding Organized Crime, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the subject and includes coverage of the types of organized crime, definitions of organized crime, why it continues to exist, and how it has evolved throughout history. Material covered includes the structure and hierarchy of each organization, their methods of operation, and the techniques and laws used by law enforcement to address the dynamic nature of domestic and transnational organized crime. Using the author’s unique approach to the topic, students will learn about organized crime through the eyes of the criminal investigator, and how law-enforcement practitioners today are counteracting these criminal organizations. New and Key Features of the Second Edition: • Revised and updated to include new and relevant research, statistics, and case studies to help students understand the true nature of organized crime and the players involved. • Chapter 5 (Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations) has been updated to include the most recent information on new alliances and wars over territories and smuggling routes between established cartels and emerging organizations in Mexico. • A new chapter, The Nexus of Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism, addresses the increasing connections between terrorist groups and transnational organized crime, including new challenges facing governments and law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting these cooperative networks. • Provides information outlining the new age of piracy that has resulted in the creation of task forces that focus on areas around the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia. • Additional and updated information is now included in the chapters on the Russian Mafia, the Italian-American Mafia, the Yakuza, and Outlaw Bikers. Instructor Resources: *Test Bank *Microsoft PowerPoint slides Student Resources: * Companion Website (secure) featuring: -interactive glossary -interactive flashcards -practice exercises -and more!

Mafia Organizations

Author : Maurizio Catino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108750931
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Mafia Organizations written by Maurizio Catino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many more murders than others? This book makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a collative analysis of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews. Catino presents a comparative study of seven mafias around the world, from three Italian mafias to the American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia. He identifies the organizational architecture that characterizes these criminal groups, and relates different organizational models to the use of violence. Furthermore, he advances a theory on the specific functionality of mafia rules and discusses the major organizational dilemmas that mafias face. This book shows that understanding the organizational logic of mafias is an indispensable step in confronting them.

Mafia and Organized Crime

Author : James O. Finckenauer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741650
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Mafia and Organized Crime written by James O. Finckenauer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling introduction to the global impact of organized crime Famous for being ruthless, cruel, and cool, the Mafia has always captured the darker side of the imagination. Here, James Finckenauer debunks the myths surrounding the Mafia to reveal the harsh realities of global organized crime from Japan to Russia to Colombia. Despite popular appeal, these incredibly complex organizations destabilize society on a global scale, perpetuating untold economic, physical, psychological, and societal damage. "Mafia and Organized Crime: A Beginner's Guide" provides vital insight into the real stories behind the world's richest and most successful criminals.

Mafia Life

Author : Federico Varese
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190868937
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Mafia Life written by Federico Varese and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, mafias operate across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of members and billions of dollars in revenue. From Hong Kong to New York, these vast organizations spread their tentacles into politics, finance and everyday life. Criminologist Federico Varese draws on a lifetime's research to give us access to some of the world's most secretive societies. Mixing reportage with case studies and historical insights, this is the story of mafia as it really is: filled with boredom and drama, death and disaster, ambition and betrayal.

The Everything Mafia Book

Author : Scott M Dietche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605507229
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Everything Mafia Book written by Scott M Dietche and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkableùand often sordidùworld of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia. From Al Capone to John Gotti, you will come away with a better understanding of AmericaÆs most notorious crime families. This book features colorful information on: The Sicilian Mafia The ôFirst Familyö of the American Mafia The ôrealö Untouchables The mob and politicians The five New York families Packed full of up-to-date gangster information, this guide will satisfy even the most ardent true-crime enthusiasts."

Understanding the Mafia

Author : John Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Mafia written by John Burton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mafia - the History with Mario Puzo's Godfather in Background

Author : Marta Zapala-Kraj
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640742273
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Mafia - the History with Mario Puzo's Godfather in Background written by Marta Zapala-Kraj and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, language: English, abstract: Nowadays the word 'Mafia' refers nearly all groups or gangs involved in organized crime. However, originally, Mafia meant an organized criminal organization of Italian, predominantly Sicilian, heritage. In fact, this word is a mere literary creation while the real name is 'Cosa Nostra' meaning 'our thing'. For many years the common understanding of the Mafia was strictly limited by argument on whether there even was a Mafia. In the recent decades that argument was more or less settled, and the principal argument remaining is whether or not organized crime and the Mafia are one and the same thing. According to Finckenauer: To this end, this useful primer to the phenomenon quite rightly tarts with a simple question that begs a complex answer: what is organized crime? Sometimes, the mobsters are easy to identify, a collection of ne'er-do-wells with no visible source of income but owning flashy cars and homes; involved in the staples of organized criminality, whether trafficking drugs or infiltrating legitimate businesses. The old stereotypes, which were always something of a caricature, are becoming even less applicable in the modern world. [...] In part the confusion revolves around an understanding of the real nature of organized crime that existed since the earliest days of the nation and, indeed, earlier. It is worth remembering that, organized crime achieves its status not only by the fact of groups of practitioners, but also due to the fact that organized crime is syndicate crime in which certain activities are apportioned out to the various gangs and honored in the main by these gangs. What is interesting, in the beginning and even till the 1950s, many people regarded the Mafia not as law-breaking criminals but as role-models and protectors of the weak and the poor, as the state offered no protection to the lower

From Mafia to Organised Crime

Author : Anna Sergi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319535684
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book From Mafia to Organised Crime written by Anna Sergi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups. Through interviews and interpretation of original documents, this study firstly demonstrates the interaction between institutional understanding of the criminal threats and historical events that have shaped these perceptions. Secondly, it combines analysis of policies and criminal law provisions to identify how policing models which combat mafia and organised crime activities are organized and constructed in each country within a comparative perspective. After presenting the similarities between the four differing policing models, Sergi pushes the comparison further by identifying both conceptual and procedural convergences and divergences across both the four models and within international frameworks. By looking at topics as varied as mafia mobility, money laundering, drug networks and gang violence, this book ultimately seeks to reconsider the conceptualizations of both mafia and organized crime from a socio-behavioural and cultural perspective.

The Media & The Mob:Exploring the Mafia Mystique

Author : Ron Quartararo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479731285
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Media & The Mob:Exploring the Mafia Mystique written by Ron Quartararo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Media & the Mob: Exploring the Mafia Mystique is a fascinating look at the world of media stereotyping. Its a complex issue, shaped in large part my misperceptions, the need, at times, to hype stories for promotional purposes, and by some insensitivities incurred by writers in their haste to get stories completed. This book examines one of the most pervasive ethnic stereotypes – that of Italians and Italian Americans and organized crime. While ethnic stereotyping is certainly not the sole province of Italians, it has certainly been one of the most prevalent in both entertainment and news media alike. In this book Quartararo has given the reader an inside look into the mindset of a large news media organization and the process it used for vetting news stories, along with insights into the perceptions and misperceptions that can be created in how news stories are packaged and presented. While this meeting between Italian American representatives from academia, politics and the community at large and high level television broadcast news executives at took place 30 years ago, the discussion is as relevant today as it was then! Both sides came away with a better understanding and appreciation of the other. We hope the reader will do the same.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia

Author : Jerry Capeci
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028642253
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia written by Jerry Capeci and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the complete idiot's guide to understanding the Mafia and provides an inside look into organized crime, their rules, and major events in Mafia history as well as information on notable men such as Jimmy Hoffa, Al Capone, and the Genovese family.

Mafia Politics

Author : Marco Santoro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509545824
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Mafia Politics written by Marco Santoro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia – in particular Cosa Nostra – as a distinct form of politics. Marco Santoro breaks with criminal and economic approaches which see the Mafia as an industry of private protection and rationally calculating wealth accumulation. Instead he argues that it represents an alternative way of organizing political relations, the exercise of power, and the struggle for prestige. Nor is this a distortion or failure of the modern Western state, based on the rule of law: the Mafia is best understood as an older, alternative tradition of politics, a distinctly Southern institutional arrangement of social life focused on personal ties and obligations. Today, the Mafia still thrives among subaltern classes and in regions that the modern state has not yet incorporated, as a conservative counter-politics of prestige. Pivotal to understanding this world is a cultural sociology of the Mafia, offering the tools and concepts necessary to penetrate the symbolism and structures of Mafia life. Blending diverse theoretical strands with folk sources and the voices of Mafiosi themselves, Santoro develops a political theory of the Mafia, shedding new light on this captivating, global, and remarkably resilient phenomenon.

The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature

Author : Robin Pickering-Iazzi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442625783
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature written by Robin Pickering-Iazzi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an array of cultural documents from 1990 to the present, including diaries, testimonies, fiction, online video postings, and anti-mafia social networks, Robin Pickering-Iazzi examines the myths, values, codes of behaviour, and relationships produced by the Italian mafia through a wide cross-disciplinary lens. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature explores the ways that these literary engagements with the mafia relate to broader contemporary Italian life and offer implicit challenges, and a quiet code of resistance, to the trauma and injustice wrought by the mafia in various Italian cities. Despite the long tradition of representing the mafia in Italian literature, until now women’s contributions to this literature have been overlooked. Pickering-Iazzi’s aim is to encourage new critical reflection on a broader selection of literature through new theoretical lenses in order to enrich our understanding of crime fiction, Sicily and Sicilian identity in literature, narrative traits of the new Italian epic, and the cultural and social functions of storytelling in life and literature.

Mafias on the Move

Author : Federico Varese
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691158010
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Mafias on the Move written by Federico Varese and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. This book argues that mafiosi often find themselves abroad against their will, rather than through a strategic plan to colonizethe territories.

Organized Crime

Author : Jay S. Albanese
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317522095
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime written by Jay S. Albanese and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized Crime: From the Mob to Transnational Organized Crime, Seventh Edition, provides readers with a clear understanding of organized crime, including its definition and causes, how it is categorized under the law, models to explain its persistence, and the criminal justice response to organized crime, including investigation, prosecution, defense, and sentencing. This book offers a comprehensive survey, including an extensive history of the Mafia in the United States; a legal analysis of the offenses that underlie organized crimes; specific attention to modern manifestations of organized crime activity, such as human smuggling, Internet crimes, and other transnational criminal operations; and the application of ethics to the study of organized crime. A new section has been added on threat assessment in organized crime. Chapters are enhanced by updated photos, tables, charts, and critical thinking exercises that help students apply concepts to actual organized crime cases. Every chapter includes two student-friendly special features: Organized Crime Biography and Organized Crime at the Movies. A glossary gives students a quick reference for looking up important definitions of organized crime-related terms, and a Timeline of Organized Crime in the United States highlights important events in the history of organized crime.