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Success in criminal enterprise largely depends on how offenders go aboutcommitting their crimes. An offender?s search for increasing financial returnsand decreasing costs is mediated by the structure of his pool of useful andtrustworthy contacts. In Contacts Opportunities and Criminal EnterpriseCarlo Morselli examines how businessoriented criminals who have personalnetworks designed to promote high numbers of diverse contacts achieve andmaintain competitive advantages in their earning activities and overallcriminal careers.Based on two case studies of criminal careers in internationalcannabis smuggling and Cosa Nosta racketeering the book proposes a socialnetwork framework to study the underlying social relationships influencingachievement in crime. Morselli further utilizes this relational approach toillustrate how survival and longterm endurance in criminal enterprise isachieved and how criminals? networks of contacts and opportunities caninsulate them from potentially careerdamaging forces ? law enforcement fellowcriminals etc. Contacts Opportunities and Criminal Enterprise is a muchneeded assessment of criminal activity. «
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