Research Catalog

Title

Contacts, opportunities, and criminal enterprise / Carlo Morselli.

Author

Morselli, Carlo, 1969-

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2005.

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Description

viii, 159 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. Carlo Morselli further utilizes this relational approach to illustrate how early success and long-term survival in criminal enterprise are achieved, and how criminals' networks of contacts and opportunities can insulate them from potentially career-damaging forces such as law enforcement and fellow criminals."--Jacket.

Subject

• Criminal behavior > Case studies
• Criminals > Social networks
• Criminal psychology > Case studies
• Organized crime
• Comportement criminel > Cas, Études de
• Criminels > Réseaux sociaux
• Psychologie criminelle > Cas, Études de
• Crime organisé

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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 -- App. A. Contact matrices for marks' importation consignments -- App. B. Contact matrices for Gravano's promotional phases.

ISBN

• 0802038794 (alk. paper)
• 0802038115 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006272456

OCLC

60369512

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library