The Secret Power Of Criminal Organizations

Author : Giovanni A. Travaglino
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303044161X
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Power of Criminal Organizations written by Giovanni A. Travaglino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief presents a social psychological approach to understanding the reaction of communities to organized crime and illegal groups. Based on a new theoretical framework and the latest empirical evidence, this book explores questions of how criminal organizations are able to gain power and exert governance over entire territories. This book draws on the prototypical example of Italian organized crime and analyzes the thesis that the power of criminal groups is grounded in dynamics of legitimization rather than fear or coercion. The compliance of a community is seen here as stemming from the endorsement of specific cultural values and norms. These cultural values are actively appropriated, mobilized and transmitted by criminal groups, a dynamic the authors have labeled Intracultural Appropriation Theory. The book emphasizes what can be learned from using this emerging theory in similar settings such as those of terrorist groups and violent gangs, and points the way to solutions for this social problem.

Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802082787
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime and American Power written by Michael Woodiwiss and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historisch overzicht van de samenhang en wederzijdse beïnvloeding van de georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de Verenigde Staten.

Author : James Cockayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190694815
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Power written by James Cockayne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called 'mafia states' such as Guinea-Bissau, North Korea or, as some argue, Russia? Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne discovers the strategic logic of organized crime, hidden in a century of forgotten political--criminal collaboration in New York, Sicily and the Caribbean. He reveals states and mafias competing - and collaborating -- in a competition for governmental power. He discovers mafias influencing elections, changing constitutions, organizing domestic insurgencies and transnational terrorism, negotiating peace deals, and forming governmental joint ventures with ruling groups. And he sees mafias working with the US government to spy on American citizens, catch Nazis, try to assassinate Fidel Castro, invade and govern Sicily, and playing unappreciated roles in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author : Gus Russo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918985
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supermob written by Gus Russo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-12 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is investigative reporter Gus Russo's most explosive book yet, the remarkable story of the "Supermob"-a cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting startling revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein, Joe Glaser, Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, and John Jacob Factor-as well as infamous, low-profile members-Russo pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business, politics, and society. At the heart of it all is Sidney "The Fixer" Korshak, who from the 1940s until his death in the 1990s was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but the enigmatic player behind countless twentieth-century power mergers, political deals, and organized crime chicaneries.

Author : Maurizio Catino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108750931
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( 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.

Author : Stephen R. Fox
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140134384
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Power written by Stephen R. Fox and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history and development of organized crime in the United States, focusing on its pervasiveness in American life

Author : Paul Lunde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760786246
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime written by Paul Lunde and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of organized crime and examines the characteristics, resources, strategies, and history of the criminal underworld from a social, political, and economic context, as well as the efforts of law enforcement.

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Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mafia written by and published by Harper. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The real-life names and faces behind the legends: the Feds' long-lost black book on the mob"--Back cover.

Author : Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517075319
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Power written by Fox and published by . This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay S. Albanese
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Crime in America written by Jay S. Albanese and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with all aspects of organized crime, its history, and the politics of organized crime in the United States. The book includes recent evaluations of investigative and prosecution tools employed to combat organized crime.