Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195375268)

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
ISBN-10: 0195375262
ISBN-13: 9780195375268
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d