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By James Cockayne

ISBN-10: 0190627336

ISBN-13: 9780190627331

ISBN-10: 019069470X

ISBN-13: 9780190694708

An exploration of a global during which states and mafias compete in a ""market for government,"" and never in basic terms states, but in addition a few felony teams make war.

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The chapter then considers four questions: first, do criminal 15 HIDDEN POWER groups have strategic goals? Second, is crime rationally organized to achieve them? Third, where does strategic decision-making occur? And fourth, how are the means to achieve these ends organized? What do we know about political-criminal interaction? The fields of political science and strategic studies have traditionally ruled out criminal groups being considered strategic actors because they treat strategy as a question of pursuing power—and especially political power—rather than profit.

57 â•… A preference for dodging formal political authority in the upperworld does not however necessarily signify a lack of desire for political power over that upperworld. That is precisely the genius of criminal strategy: it involves the development of clandestine advantage in political relations with and in the upperworld, even if the rents and power accrued lie primarily in the underworld. 58 Supplant the state, or some other higher political authority capable of declaring the market you operate in ‘criminal’, and you remove the criminal tariff (the rent you can charge because a good or service is illegal).

128 The simplest use of coercion is to capture the resources—the means—needed to extract criminal rents. This is simple predation and robbery—whether of the highway variety, or, as in the Somali piracy case, the high seas variety. Coercion is used to control both material and intangible resources, such as supply routes. 130 The normalization of coercion as a sanction turns a criminal network into a more institutionalized organization, separating it from the broader environment. As Falcone stressed, the mafia: is a society, an organization which to all intents and purposes has its own legal system… Given that within the Mafia structure there are no courts and no police force either, it is essential that each of its ‘citizens’ knows that punishment is inevitable and that the sentence will be carried out immediately.

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