Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style / Letizia Paoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paoli, Letizia, author.

Series:

Studies in crime and public policy.

Studies in Crime and Public Policy

Standardized Title:

Fratelli di mafia. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

'Ndrangheta--History.

'Ndrangheta.

'Ndrangheta--Italy--History.

Mafia--Italy--Sicily--History.

Mafia.

Mafia--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Secrecy is one of the defining characteristics of the Italian Mafia. Wiretaps, financial records, and the rare informant occasionally reveal its inner workings, but these impressions are all too often spotty and fleeting, hampering serious scholarship on this major form of criminal activity. During her years as a consultant to the Italian government agency responsible for combating organized crime, Letizia Paoli was given unparalleled insider access to the confessions by pentiti (literally, repentants), former Mafia operatives who had turned. This mafia ""hard core"" came primarily from the tw

Contents:

Mafia associations and ruling bodies

Status and fraternization contracts

Secrecy and violence

Multiplicity of goals and functions

Mafia, state, and society.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-020758-2

0-19-537526-2

0-19-534808-7

1-60256-901-0

0-19-970509-7

1-280-50265-7

OCLC:

935262082