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Author:

Paoli, Letizia.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xiv, 289 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mafia--Sicily--Sicily--History.
Mafia--United States--History.
'Ndrangheta--Italy--History.
'Ndrangheta--History.

Other Titles:

Fratelli di mafia. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-274) and indexes.

Contents:

1. Mafia associations and ruling bodies -- Familes and members -- Historical background -- Ruling bodies of single families -- Onstitutionalization of superordinate bodies of coordination -- 2. Status and fraternization contracts -- Rites of passage -- Ritual brotherhoods -- Mementos -- Idealization of the Mafia phenomenon? -- 3. Secrecy and violence -- Variations in secrecy -- Obligation of silence -- Escalation of secrecy -- Alternative legal orders -- Mafia consortia as illegal states? -- 4. Multiplicity of goals and functions -- Money versus power -- Neither enterprises... -- ...Nor states -- 5. Mafia, state, and society -- Competition and complementarity -- Mafia and politics in republican Italy -- Difficult liberation.

Series:

Studies in crime and public policy

ISBN:

9780195157246 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0195157249 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50079698
(OCoLC)53467289

LCCN:

2002009518

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)