Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style /

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...

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Fratelli di mafia.
1. Verfasser:
Paoli, Letizia
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Zusammenfassung:
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
Umfang:
1 online resource (312 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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
Schlagworte:
'Ndrangheta > History.
'Ndrangheta > Italy > History.
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