Crime, Networks and Power

This book develops the idea that the Cosa Nostra Sicilian mafia likes and,more than any other criminal organization, follows the patterns ofcapitalist transformation. The author presents analysis of the mafia underpost-fordism capitalism, showing how they rely on increasingly moreflexible networks for reasons of both cost and dodging policecontrol, as well as changing their core businesses in relation to the risk thatsome activities, such as drug trafficking, are likely to incur. Combining sociology, criminology and labour sociology, the book providesan interpretation of Cosa Nostra which focuses on the connection betweenlegal and illegal economies and politics, thus doing away with the idea thatorganized crime is always an external entity to society. An authoritativeand original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars ofcriminal justice, politics and economics.