Mafia & Mafiosi: Origin, Power and Myth

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C. Hurst, 1998 - Crime - 232 pages
This is a sociological study of a distinct subculture - the Mafioso - whose behavioural patterns have been largely determined by the specific political, economic and social history of Sicily: a society characterized by a weak state and organized on the basis of self-help.

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