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Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2019Description: 346pISBN:
  • 9781108466967
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.106 CAT
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1.What Type of Organization Are Mafias?
1.1.Different Conceptions and Some Misunderstandings
1.2.Mafias as Organizations
1.2.1.Mafia as a Type of Organized Crime
1.2.2.Mafia as a Type of Secret Society
2.Organizational Architecture
2.1.Recruitment and the Problem of Informational Asymmetry
2.2.Coordination and Communication Problems
2.3.Learning
2.3.1.Criminal Community of Practice
2.4.Reputation
2.5.Sagas, Rituals, and Collective Events
2.5.1.Organizational Sagas
2.5.2.Rituals
2.5.3.Mafia Liturgies: The Initiation Rituals
2.5.4.Integration and Aggregation Rituals
2.5.5.Removal and Degradation Rituals
2.5.6.Conclusions
2.6.Accounting
2.6.1.Top-Down
2.6.2.Bottom-Up
2.7.Environment and Organizational Ecosystems
2.8.Mafia Transaction Cost Economics
2.8.1.Transaction Cost Economics
2.8.2.Transaction Cost Economics in Mafias
2.8.3.Business Development
2.8.4.Limitation of Competition
2.8.5.Enforcement
2.9.Between Clan and Feudal Hierarchy
2.9.1.Organizational Control
2.9.2.Clan Signs
2.10.Organizational Structure
2.10.1.The Government Dimension: The Minimal Organizational Unit
2.10.2.The Governance Dimension: Higher-Level Bodies of Coordination
3.Organizational Orders
3.1.Mafia Structures
3.1.1.The Sicilian Cosa Nostra
3.1.2.The 'Ndrangheta
3.1.3.The Camorra
3.1.4.The American Cosa Nostra
3.1.5.The Triads
3.1.6.The Yakuza
3.1.7.The Russian Mafia
3.1.8.Comparison of the Mafias' Organizational Orders
4.Organizational Orders and the Use of Violence
4.1.Conflict and Violence
4.2.Collusion or Competition? Italian Mafia Murders and Conflict Resolution
4.2.1.Ordinary Murders
4.2.2.High-Profile Assassinations
4.3.War and Peace in Other Mafias
5.Mafia Rules
5.1.A Theory of Mafia Rules
5.1.1.Rules in Organizations
5.1.2.Rules in Mafia Organizations
5.2.Mafia Rules: Types and Functions
5.2.1.Written Codes
5.2.2.Types and Functions of Rules
5.2.3.Sanctions, Reinforcement, and the Ambivalence of Rules
5.2.4.Some Concluding Remarks
6.Mafia Organizational Dilemmas
6.1.Small vs. Large
6.2.Security vs. Efficiency
6.3.Concealment vs. Consensus and Visibility
6.4.Centralized vs. Decentralized Structure
6.5.The Use of Violence vs. Containment
6.6.Recruitment: Kinship vs. Skills
6.7.Trust vs. Distrust
6.7.1.Trust, Mistrust, Betrayal.

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