The Secret Power of Criminal Organizations: A Social Psychological Approach
In: SpringerBriefs in Psychology Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Understanding Organized Crime -- Popular Culture -- Scientific Definitions -- Italian Organized Crime -- Criminal Organizations and the Community: The Code of Omertà -- Explanations of Omertà: Fear and Passivity -- Omertà: An Alternative Account -- Chapter 3: Intracultural Appropriation Theory -- Power, Authority and Legitimacy -- The Psychological Bases of Legitimacy and Legitimations -- Ideology and Culture -- Strategic Exploitation and Social Embedding -- Chapter 4: Assessing the Empirical Evidence: Masculine Honor Values and Organized Crime -- Honor, Masculinity, and Violence -- Criminal Organizations and Masculine Honor: Strategic Exploitation -- Social Embedding: The Roots of Omertà -- Other Predictors of Omertà -- The Role of Other Honor Codes -- Regional Identity and Honor Codes -- Chapter 5: Intergroup Contact in the Context of Criminal Organizations -- Intergroup Contact Theory -- Antecedents of Intergroup Contact: The Role of Individual Differences -- Culture and Contact with Members of Organized Crime -- Intergroup Contact and Social Activism -- Positive and Negative Contact in the Context of Criminal Organizations -- Chapter 6: Towards a New Understanding of Criminal Groups' Secret Power -- A Role for Culture: Culture as Ideology in the Legitimization of Illegal Groups -- Future Research Directions: What We Still Need to Understand -- Cultural Values and the Perception of State Authorities -- Contact and Opposition to Criminal Organizations -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.