Contacts, opportunities, and criminal enterprise / / Carlo Morselli

• Autore: Morselli Carlo <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.3
• Soggetto topico: Criminal behavior; Criminals - Social networks; Criminal psychology; Organized crime
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Conceptual Discrepancies -- 2. A Personal Network Framework for Criminal Enterprise -- 3. Sources and Method -- 4. Structuring Mr. Nice -- 5. Career Opportunities in the Cosa Nostra -- 6. Privileged Positioning and Access to Lethal Violence -- 7. Summary and Extensions -- Appendix A: Contact Matrices for Marks' Importation Consignments -- Appendix B: Contact Matrices for Gravano's Promotional Phases -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Success in criminal enterprise largely depends on how offenders go about committing their crimes. An offender?s search for increasing financial returns and decreasing costs is mediated by the structure of his pool of useful and trustworthy contacts. In Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise, Carlo Morselli examines how business-oriented criminals who have personal networks designed to promote high numbers of diverse contacts achieve and maintain competitive advantages in their earning activities and overall criminal careers.Based on two case studies of criminal careers in international cannabis smuggling and Cosa Nosta racketeering, the book proposes a social network framework to study the underlying social relationships influencing achievement in crime. Morselli further utilizes this relational approach to illustrate how survival and long-term endurance in criminal enterprise is achieved, and how criminals? networks of contacts and opportunities can insulate them from potentially career-damaging forces ? law enforcement, fellow criminals, etc. Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise is a much-needed assessment of criminal activity.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contacts, opportunities, and criminal enterprise
• ISBN: 0-8020-3811-5; 1-282-02894-4; 9786612028946; 1-4426-7330-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455802303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II