Date: 2003
Type: Book
Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
PAOLI, Letizia, Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style, New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22655
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
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.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22655
ISBN: 0195375262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5344
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1997