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050	0	0	_aHV6441 _b.C384 2019
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100	1		_aCatino, Maurizio, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMafia organizations : _bthe visible hand of criminal enterprise / _cMaurizio Catino.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2019).
520			_aHow 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.
650		0	_aMafia.
650		0	_aOrganized crime.
650		0	_aOrganizational sociology.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108476119
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567183
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