Paoli, Letizia. <br/><br/>
Mafia brotherhoods :   organized crime, Italian style / 
Letizia Paoli. 
 - xiv, 289 p., [8] p. of plates :  ill., maps 
 - Studies in crime and public policy .
 - Studies in crime and public policy. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Askews and Holts. <br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Italian. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199705092 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mafia--History.--Italy--Sicily<br/>Mafia--History.--United States<br/>'Ndrangheta--History.<br/>History<br/>European history<br/>Cultural studies<br/>Crime & criminology<br/>International institutions<br/>Legal aspects of criminology<br/>Economics<br/>Linguistics<br/>True crime<br/>Social & cultural anthropology<br/>Criminal law: procedure & offences<br/>Italy
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