Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise by Maurizio Catino

Description: Mafia Organizations by Maurizio Catino Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. This collative study of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews will aid students and scholars of sociology, organizational studies and criminology to better understand how mafias work. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Maurizio Catino is Professor of Sociology of Organizations at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at New York University. His writing has been published in Organization Studies, European Journal of Sociology, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Cognition Technology and Work, amongst others. His most recent book is Organizational Myopia (Cambridge, 2013). Table of Contents 1. What type of organization are mafias?; 2. Organizational architecture; 3. Organizational orders; 4. Organizational orders and the use of violence; 5. Mafia rules; 6. Mafia organizational dilemmas. Review Mafia Organizations provides a deep analysis of these crime groups throughout Italy and around the world, capturing the essential fact that they are organizations, coping with the same problems with which all organizations must cope, but under extraordinary circumstances that make them unique, and uniquely interesting. Leveraging comparisons for analytic insight, Professor Catino has written what is not only the best book by a social scientist on organized crime, but a study that will fascinate and inform students of organizational behavior and social organization as well. Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityMafias are complex organizations that face many of the same managerial challenges as legitimate enterprises. Maurizio Catino is well qualified to bring insights from the vast organizational theory literature to understand how Mafias deal with these challenges. While drawing heavily on the many lengthy confessions of members of mafias in Sicily and Southern Italy, a strength of the book is its coverage of mafias in the United States, China and Japan. This is an important addition to the already rich literature on Mafias. Peter Reuter, University of MarylandCatino offers a fascinating study of the practices of Mafias, making a compelling case for analyzing Mafias from an organizational perspective. With its rich detail and refreshing analytical clarity, the book is an important contribution to our understanding of the role of organized crime in contemporary economies. Jens Beckert, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and editor of The Architecture of Illegal MarketsBooks on mafias have been available for decades. However, most are descriptive and tend to highlight the most horrific aspects of mafias: the killings or intergang rivalries that have led to public violence. In Mafia Organizations, Catino takes a more temperate approach by arguing that understanding mafias is copiously illuminated by drawing from organizational theory … This book is an innovative contribution to understanding mafias and other OCGs … Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students through faculty. J. P. Hoffmann, ChoiceThis is a dense and serious book that is highly recommended for anyone who would like to understand the organizational codes of mafia groups. An important scholarly investigation, it unveils the organizational structure that plays a vital role in mafia groups across the world. Baris Cayli, RutgersThose eager for a technical, theory-driven approach to studying mafia organizations will definitely find this book interesting and enjoyable. Joel Baum, Administrative Science QuarterlyThis book is a classic in organizational theory and criminal justice. It would be useful for graduate school in public administration or teaching classes in political science and organized crime. Law enforcement should read this book as well, and to be honest, so should the bad guys. James Timothy Linehan, International Criminal Justice Review… the book is an invaluable read for students and scholars in the field who will find a copious amount of fodder for their future research. One must also not forget, given the clandestine nature of mafia operations, that compiling the vast amount of disaggregated information and data on mafia families of the chosen regions is a tall order. And for that, Catino richly deserves praise. Written lucidly … the book overall is a valuable repository of scholarly knowledge on both organizational theories and the mafia. Yugank Goyal, American Journal of Sociology Promotional Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. Review Quote MAFIA ORGANIZATIONS provides a deep analysis of these crime groups throughout Italy and around the world, capturing the essential fact that they are organizations, coping with the same problems with which all organizations must cope, but under extraordinary circumstances that make them unique, and uniquely interesting. Leveraging comparisons for analytic insight, Professor Catino has written what is not only the best book by a social scientist on organized crime, but a study that will fascinate and inform students of organizational behavior and social organization as well. Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, NYU. Promotional "Headline" Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. Description for Bookstore Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. This collative study of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews will aid students and scholars of sociology, organizational studies and criminology to better understand how mafias work. Description for Library Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. This collative study of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews will aid students and scholars of sociology, organizational studies and criminology to better understand how mafias work. Details ISBN1108466966 Author Maurizio Catino Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1108466966 ISBN-13 9781108466967 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 364.106 Affiliation Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Pages 356 Publication Date 2019-02-07 Short Title Mafia Organizations Language English UK Release Date 2019-02-07 AU Release Date 2019-02-07 NZ Release Date 2019-02-07 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; 12 Tables, black and white; 26 Line drawings, black and white Alternative 9781108476119 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145641766;

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