Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style by Letizia Paoli

Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style by Letizia Paoli 

Condition

Pages crisp and clear with tight binding. Cover worn. See images

Product Details

•  Format - Paperback
• Pages - 289

Synopsis

Relying on previously undisclosed confessions of former mafia members now cooperating with the police, Letizia Paoli provides a clinically accurate portrait of mafia behaviour, 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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