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The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System
(2014)
Mafias do not materialize and come to power at random. They form in power vacuums where people cannot rely on state enforcement of property rights.
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It is common for organized crime to form when newly established property rights have no effective state-based mechanisms to secure them.
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