DARK MAFIA [electronic resource] : organized crime in the age of the internet.
Nicaso, Antonio.
DARK MAFIA organized crime in the age of the internet. [electronic resource] : - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2023. - 1 online resource
This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them attractive to a new generation of computer users. Focusing on Italian Mafias, Russian and Georgian criminal groups and drug cartels, and Asian crime syndicates such as Yakuza and Triads, this book aims to describe and explain the reasons behind the continuity of online and offline crime, taking into consideration whether or not internet culture has radically changed the way we perceive organized crime and if so how, and thus how the shift in popular imagery that the internet has brought about affects its actual illegal activities. We also consider how organized crime has shifted its locale from the physical to the virtual, how cybercrime has allowed criminal organizations to adapt and reinvent themselves, and how the police now use technology against organized crime. To better understand the new generation of criminals, it is becoming increasingly urgent to understand the latest technologies and how criminals utilize them. The Dark Mafia is an engaging and accessible introduction to understanding virtual organized crime. It will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, policing, and all those interested in the digital age of organized crime.
9781000861129 1000861120 9781003278597 1003278590 9781000861167 1000861163
10.4324/9781003278597 doi
COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Organized crime.
Gangs.
Computer crimes.
Dark Web.
HV6441
364.106
DARK MAFIA organized crime in the age of the internet. [electronic resource] : - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2023. - 1 online resource
This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them attractive to a new generation of computer users. Focusing on Italian Mafias, Russian and Georgian criminal groups and drug cartels, and Asian crime syndicates such as Yakuza and Triads, this book aims to describe and explain the reasons behind the continuity of online and offline crime, taking into consideration whether or not internet culture has radically changed the way we perceive organized crime and if so how, and thus how the shift in popular imagery that the internet has brought about affects its actual illegal activities. We also consider how organized crime has shifted its locale from the physical to the virtual, how cybercrime has allowed criminal organizations to adapt and reinvent themselves, and how the police now use technology against organized crime. To better understand the new generation of criminals, it is becoming increasingly urgent to understand the latest technologies and how criminals utilize them. The Dark Mafia is an engaging and accessible introduction to understanding virtual organized crime. It will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, policing, and all those interested in the digital age of organized crime.
9781000861129 1000861120 9781003278597 1003278590 9781000861167 1000861163
10.4324/9781003278597 doi
COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Organized crime.
Gangs.
Computer crimes.
Dark Web.
HV6441
364.106