Crime, Networks and Power
Subtitle: Transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9783319462356
Subjects: Mafia
Description: 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.