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UNINA9910791879703321 |
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Autore |
Varese Federico |
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Titolo |
Mafias on the move [[electronic resource] ] : how organized crime conquers new territories / / Federico Varese |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
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1-283-00127-6 |
9786613001276 |
1-4008-3672-7 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mafia - History |
Organized crime - History |
Transnational crime - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One: Introduction -- Two: Mafia Transplantation -- Three: The `Ndrangheta in Piedmont and Veneto -- Four: The Russian Mafia in Rome and Budapest -- Five: Lessons from the Past: Sicilian Mafiosi in New York City and Rosario, circa 1880-1940 -- Six: The Future of the Mafias? Foreign Triads in China -- Seven: Mafia Origins, Transplantation, and the Paradoxes of Democracy -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As Federico Varese explains in this compelling and daring book, the truth is more complicated. Varese has spent years researching mafia groups in Italy, Russia, the United States, and China, and argues that mafiosi often find themselves abroad against their will, rather than through a strategic plan to colonize new territories. Once there, they do not always succeed in establishing themselves. Varese spells out the conditions that lead to their long-term success, namely sudden market expansion that is neither exploited by local rivals nor blocked by |
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authorities. Ultimately the inability of the state to govern economic transformations gives mafias their opportunity. In a series of matched comparisons, Varese charts the attempts of the Calabrese 'Ndrangheta to move to the north of Italy, and shows how the Sicilian mafia expanded to early twentieth-century New York, but failed around the same time to find a niche in Argentina. He explains why the Russian mafia failed to penetrate Rome but succeeded in Hungary. In a pioneering chapter on China, he examines the challenges that triads from Taiwan and Hong Kong find in branching out to the mainland. Based on ground-breaking field work and filled with dramatic stories, this book is both a compelling read and a sober assessment of the risks posed by globalization and immigration for the spread of mafias. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910484151103321 |
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Spatial Information Theory : International Conference, COSIT 2005, Ellicottville, NY, USA, September 14-18, 2005, Proceedings / / edited by Anthony G. Cohn, David M. Mark |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2005.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XII, 500 p.) |
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Collana |
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Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 3693 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Artificial intelligence - Data processing |
Artificial intelligence |
Computer science |
Database management |
Physical geography |
Data Science |
Artificial Intelligence |
Theory of Computation |
Database Management |
Models of Computation |
Physical Geography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Vagueness, Uncertainty, and Gradation -- Anchoring: A New Approach to Handling Indeterminate Location in GIS -- Gradation and Map Analysis in Area-Class Maps -- Simulation of Obfuscation and Negotiation for Location Privacy -- Paths and Routes -- Investigating the Need for Eliminatory Constraints in the User Interface of Bicycle Route Planners -- Path Memory in Real-World and Virtual Settings -- Shortest Path Search from a Physical Perspective -- Ontology and Semantics -- Operationalising ‘Sense of Place’ as a Cognitive Operator for Semantics in Place-Based Ontologies -- Data-Driven Matching of Geospatial Schemas -- The Role of Spatial Relations in Automating the Semantic Annotation of Geodata -- Ontology and Spatial Relations -- Anatomical Information Science -- Matching Names and Definitions of Topological Operators -- Spatial Relations Between Classes of Individuals -- Spatial Reasoning -- Casl Specifications of Qualitative Calculi -- A Spatial Form of Diversity -- Structure and Semantics of Arrow Diagrams -- Cognitive Maps and Spatial Reasoning -- Cognitive Maps Are over 60 -- Categorical Methods in Qualitative Reasoning: The Case for Weak Representations -- On Internal Cardinal Direction Relations -- Time, Change, and Dynamics -- Dynamic Collectives and Their Collective Dynamics -- A Linguistics-Based Framework for Modeling Spatio-temporal Occurrences and Purposive Change -- Ordering Events for Dynamic Geospatial Domains -- Landmarks and Navigation -- Structural Salience of Landmarks for Route Directions -- Expert and Non-expert Knowledge of Loosely Structured Environments -- Landmark Extraction: A Web Mining Approach -- Geographic Information -- Satellite Images – A Source for Social Scientists? On Handling Multiple Conceptualisations of Space in Geographical Information Systems -- 3DTopographic Data Modelling: Why Rigidity Is Preferable to Pragmatism -- Morse-Smale Decompositions for Modeling Terrain Knowledge -- Spatial Behavior -- 2D-3D MultiAgent GeoSimulation with Knowledge-Based Agents of Customers’ Shopping Behavior in a Shopping Mall -- Memory for Spatial Location: Influences of Environmental Cues and Task Field Rotation -- Network and Psychological Effects in Urban Movement -- Abstracts of Keynote Talks -- Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation -- Spatial Language, Spatial Thought: Parallels in Path Structure. |
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This volume contains the papers presented at the "Conference on Spatial Inf- mationTheory",heldinEllicottville,NewYorkinSeptember 2005.COSIT2005 was the 7th International Conference held under the COSIT name. When - drewFrankandhiscolleaguesorganizedthe'rstCOSITconferenceontheisland of Elba, Italy, in 1993, it represented the maturing of an international research community that had already met four or ?ve times in the United States, Spain, and Italy. Of course, cognitive and computational approaches to space and s- tial phenomena werenot themselves new topics,but a contextof providingth- retical underpinning for geographicinformation systems refocused some of these researchers and brought them up against practical and conceptual challenges. A second international symposium under the COSIT name, held in Semmering, Austria in 1995, established COSIT as a biennial conference series that cont- ued at Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA (1997), Stade, Germany (1999), Morro Bay, California, USA (2001) and |
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Ittingen, Switzerland (2003). A prod- tive partnership with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science has ensured that the papers from every COSIT meeting have been widely disseminated, and the COSIT community has contributed signi'cantly to the development of G- graphic Information Science, Geoinformatics and Spatial Information Theory in general. |
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