Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style / Letizia Paoli.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Studies in crime and public policyPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: xiv, 289 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199705092 (ebook)Subject(s): Mafia -- Italy -- Sicily -- History | Mafia -- United States -- History | 'Ndrangheta -- History | History | European history | Cultural studies | Crime & criminology | International institutions | Legal aspects of criminology | Economics | Linguistics | True crime | Social & cultural anthropology | Criminal law: procedure & offences | ItalyGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9780195375268Summary: Relying on previously undisclosed confessions of former mafia members now cooperating with the police, Letizia Paoli provides a clinically accurate portrait of mafia behavior, motivations, and structure in Italy. The mafia, Paoli demonstrates, are essentially multifunctional ritual brotherhoods focused above all on retaining and consolidating their local political power base. A truly interdisciplinary work of history, politics, economics, and sociology, Mafia Brotherhoods reveals in dramatic detail the true face of one of the world's most mythologized criminal organizations.
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Relying on previously undisclosed confessions of former mafia members now cooperating with the police, Letizia Paoli provides a clinically accurate portrait of mafia behavior, motivations, and structure in Italy. The mafia, Paoli demonstrates, are essentially multifunctional ritual brotherhoods focused above all on retaining and consolidating their local political power base. A truly interdisciplinary work of history, politics, economics, and sociology, Mafia Brotherhoods reveals in dramatic detail the true face of one of the world's most mythologized criminal organizations.
Also available in printed form ISBN 9780195375268
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Translated from the Italian.
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