Mafia Organizations
The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 7 February 2019
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781108476119 |
ISBN10: | 1108476112 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 356 pages |
Size: | 235x157x21 mm |
Weight: | 690 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 26 b/w illus. 12 tables |
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Short description:
Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world.
Long description:
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 Organizations provides a deep analysis of these crime groups throughout Italy and around the world, capturing the essential fact that they are organizations, coping with the same problems with which all organizations must cope, but under extraordinary circumstances that make them unique, and uniquely interesting.&&&160;Leveraging comparisons for analytic insight, Professor Catino has written what is not only the best book by a social scientist on organized crime, but a study that will fascinate and inform students of organizational behavior and social organization as well.' Paul DiMaggio, New York University
'Mafia Organizations provides a deep analysis of these crime groups throughout Italy and around the world, capturing the essential fact that they are organizations, coping with the same problems with which all organizations must cope, but under extraordinary circumstances that make them unique, and uniquely interesting.&&&160;Leveraging comparisons for analytic insight, Professor Catino has written what is not only the best book by a social scientist on organized crime, but a study that will fascinate and inform students of organizational behavior and social organization as well.' Paul DiMaggio, New York University
Table of Contents:
1. What type of organization are mafias?; 2. Organizational architecture; 3. Organizational orders; 4. Organizational orders and the use of violence; 5. Mafia rules; 6. Mafia organizational dilemmas.