Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style

by Letizia Paoli

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195157249
• ISBN13: 9780195157246
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.3" x 6.4"