Crime, Networks and Power
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Crime, Networks and Power

Transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra

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eBook - ePub

Crime, Networks and Power

Transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra

About this book

This book develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and, more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns ofcapitalist transformation. The author presents analysis of the mafia underpost-fordism capitalism, showing how they rely on increasingly moreflexible networks for reasons of both cost and dodging policecontrol, as well as changing their core businesses in relation to the risk thatsome activities, such as drug trafficking, are likely to incur.
Combining sociology, criminology and labour sociology, the book providesan interpretation of Cosa Nostra which focuses on the connection betweenlegal and illegal economies and politics, thus doing away with the idea thatorganized crime is always an external entity to society. An authoritativeand original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars ofcriminal justice, politics and economics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontmatter
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. The Research of the Giuseppe Impastato Research Centre on the Mafia Phenomenon: More Than Thirty Years of Meticulous Study
  5. 3. The Mafia in the Post-Fordist Era
  6. 4. Organised Crime or White-Collar Crime? The Case of the Sicilian Mafia
  7. 5. The Sicilian Mafia Under Post-Fordism
  8. 6. The Expansion of the Mafia in the Romagna Riviera
  9. 7. A Marriage of Necessity: Critical Criminology and the Study of Mafia Phenomena
  10. Backmatter