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

Mafia Brotherhoods 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 interdiscipli... Full description