1st Edition

The Dark Mafia Organized Crime in the Age of the Internet

By Antonio Nicaso, Marcel Danesi Copyright 2023
158 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them attractive to a new... Read more

Introduction  1.The Mafia in Cyberspace  2.Hybrid Criminality  3. Dark Mafia  4. Cool Mafia  5.From Mythologies to Memetics and Beyond

Biography

Antonio Nicaso is an internationally recognized organized crime expert, who has published more than 40 books on Mafia and Mafia-like criminal organizations, including Bad Blood, which inspired a major television series. He teaches Social History of Organized Crime and Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals and Myth at Queen’s University, Canada.

Marcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where he taught a course on Forensic Semiotics for many years. He has authored Organized Crime: A Cultural Introduction (Routledge, 2021) along with Antonio Nicaso.

"Nicaso and Danesi provide an excellent, empirically rich insight into the complexities of organized crime groups in the digital field. Their book is a refreshing and engaging addition to both cybercrime and organized crime literature."

Anita Lavorgna, Associate Professor, University of Bologna