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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9781108466967 |
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| Classification number |
364.106 |
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CAT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Catino, Maurizio |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Mafia organizations: the visible hand of criminal enterprise |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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Cambridge University Press |
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New York |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 346 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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GBP |
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21.99 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Table of Contents<br/>1. What type of organization are mafias?<br/>2. Organizational architecture<br/>3. Organizational orders<br/>4. Organizational orders and the use of violence<br/>5. Mafia rules<br/>6. Mafia organizational dilemmas. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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.<br/><br/>Considers seven mafias around the world: the three Italian mafias, American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia<br/>Provides a quantitative assessment of the presence and size of mafia organizations around the world<br/>Sheds light on how the different mafias organize themselves and how they deal with organizational dilemmas |
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Organizational sociology |
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Organized crime |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |