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

Title
Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style / by Letizia Paoli.
Author
Paoli, Letizia
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.

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Description
xii, 289 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Paoli provides a clinically accurate portrait of Mafia behaviour, motivations and structure. This interdisciplinary work of history, politics, economics and sociology, reveals in detail the true face of one of the world's most mythologized criminal organizations.
Series Statement
Studies in crime and public policy
Uniform Title
  • Fratelli di mafia. English
  • University press scholarship online.
  • Studies in crime and public policy
Alternative Title
Fratelli di mafia.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Mafia associations and ruling bodies -- Status and fraternization contracts -- Secrecy and violence -- Multiplicity of goals and functions -- Mafia, state, and society.
ISBN
0195157249 (cloth)
LCCN
^^2002009518
OCLC
50079698
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library