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The Gig Mafia How Small Networks and High-Speed Digital Funds Transfers Have Changed the Face of Organized Crime.

Organized crimes (e.g., weapons trafficking, drug distribution, white collar crime) persist globally due primarily to the power of modern information and communication technology (e.g., computer-based networks in the open and dark webs) to facilitate organization and the enhanced liquidity provided...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shapiro, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Business Expert Press, 2021.
Colección:Issn Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: revisiting and revising organized crime
  • Chapter 2. Welcome to the gig (crime) economy
  • Chapter 3. Why smaller/more flexible cell-like nodes and networks?
  • Chapter 4. The criminogenic network and role of legitimate financial institutions
  • Chapter 5. Overview of the size of the problem
  • Chapter 6. Traditional organized crime (e.g., mafia)
  • Chapter 7. Historical overview: a few key concepts
  • Chapter 8. Japan (i.e., Yakuza)
  • Chapter 9. Italy (e.g., La Cosa Nostra)
  • Chapter 10. United States (e.g., Al Capone, the "five families")
  • Chapter 11. Notes on ontology of organized crime
  • Chapter 12. Event-based (i.e., the study of criminal events and collective action as the basis for conclusions)
  • Chapter 13. Epistemology and sources of knowledge
  • Chapter 14. Operations and functioning of organized crime groups
  • Chapter 15. Transformation of organized crime groups in theory and practice
  • Chapter 16. Organized crime and new participants
  • Chapter 17. Professions and the new organized crime: control
  • Chapter 18. The future of organized crime.