Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style

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.


Author: Letizia Paoli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780195375268

About the Author

Letizia Paoli is Professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology of the K.U. Leuven Faculty of Law.

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