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. | The Secret Power Of Criminal Organizations by Giovanni A. Travaglino, Paperback | Indigo Chapters