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The Secret Power of Criminal Organizations: A Social Psychological Approach

by Giovanni A. Travaglino
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783030441609
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 66
  • Original Price: EUR 49.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2020
  • Item Weight: 123 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Research & Methodology

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This Brief presents a social psychological approach to understanding the reaction of communities to organized crime. Based on a new theoretical framework and the latest empirical evidence, this book explores questions of how criminal organizations are able to gain and exert power over social communities. Important to this framework is its applicability to similar situations such as terrorist groups and violent gangs. While it is well known that organized crime is usually based on the profit motive, this book explores the equally prevalent motive of political power and governance, for example in Italian organized crime groups. The compliance of a community is seen here as a cultural phenomenon, which the authors have labeled Intracultural Appropriation Theory. The book emphasizes what can be learned from using this emerging theory and points the way to solutions for this social problem.

Giovanni A. Travaglino, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Applied Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and Lecturer in Social and Organizational Psychology at CSGP, School of Psychology, University of Kent. His research focuses on resistance to criminal organisations and, more broadly, on group processes and inter-group relations in different cultural contexts. He is co-editor with Benjamin Abrams of Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest and founder of the Interdisciplinary Network for Social Protest Research.

Lisbeth Drury, PhD, is a Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research examines on the impact and antecedents of inter-group relations across a range of public, private and organizational settings. She is a consulting editor for the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

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