TY - BOOK ID - 5434693 TI - Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style PY - 2003 SN - 9780195375268 0195157249 0199943982 0190207582 1280502657 0199705097 1602569010 0195348087 0195375262 PB - Oxford New York Auckland : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mafia KW - 'Ndrangheta KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Academic collection KW - #KVHA:American Studies KW - #KVHA:Cultuurgeschiedenis; Verenigde Staten KW - #KVHA:Mafia; Verenigde Staten KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5434693 AB - 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. ER -