Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and...
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Author: Maurizio Catino
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Language: English
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Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise by Catino, Maurizio

Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

$360.47

Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

$360.47
Author: Maurizio Catino
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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: Maurizio Catino
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/07/2019
Pages: 356
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 9.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781108466967


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019

About the Author
Catino, Maurizio: - Maurizio Catino is Professor of Sociology of Organizations at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at New York University. His writing has been published in Organization Studies, European Journal of Sociology, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Cognition Technology and Work, amongst others. His most recent book is Organizational Myopia (Cambridge, 2013).

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