Antonio Nicaso, Marcel Danesi

Organized Crime (eBook, PDF)

A Cultural Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book demystifies and deconstructs traditional notions of organized crime and offers an interdisciplinary textbook based on an analysis of its history, its codes, its language, symbols, rituals and lifestyles; in short, a cultural introduction to organized crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000374407
• Artikelnr.: 61177102

Autorenporträt

Antonio Nicaso teaches courses on social history of organized crime and Mafia culture at Queen's University. He is a leading expert on Mafia and Mafia-like criminal organizations in the world. He has published more than 30 books on organized crime, including many bestsellers.

Marcel Danesi is Full Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where he has been teaching since 1974. He has published extensively in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, and forensic semiotics.

Inhaltsangabe

1.What Is Organized Crime? 2.The Italian Mafias 3.Other Criminal
Organizations 4.Organization 5.The Players 6.Codes 7.The Made Man 8.The
Women 9.Resources 10.The Business Agenda 11.Strategic Violence 12.Symbols
and Myths 13.Secret Communication 14.Popular Culture 15.Cyberspace
16.Theories 17.Tribalism and Adaptability 18.Epilogue