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Crime, networks and power : transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra / Vincenzo Scalia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scalia, Vincenzo, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave pivot
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mafia--Economic aspects--Europe.
- Mafia.
- Mafia--Political aspects--Europe.
- Organized crime.
- Mafia--Economic aspects.
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Police.
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Crime.
- Transnational crime.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 124 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016].
- Summary:
- This book develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and, more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns of capitalist transformation. The author presents analysis of the mafia under post-fordism capitalism, showing how they rely on increasingly more flexible networks for reasons of both cost and dodging police control, as well as changing their core businesses in relation to the risk that some activities, such as drug trafficking, are likely to incur. Combining sociology, criminology and labour sociology, the book provides an interpretation of Cosa Nostra which focuses on the connection between legal and illegal economies and politics, thus doing away with the idea that organized crime is always an external entity to society.
- Notes:
- Essays, previously published in Italian.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783319462356
- 3319462350
- OCLC:
- 957140669
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