Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style (Studies in

Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

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.
Country USA
Brand Oxford University Press
Manufacturer Oxford University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 13 halftones, 6 lines
ReleaseDate 2008-08-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780195375268

Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)