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The Sicilian Mafia
the business of private protection
By Gambetta, Diego
- ISBN
- 978-0-67480-741-9
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993.
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Reviewed on September 15, 1993
Gambetta (sociology, Oxford) sets forth a new perspective on the Mafia, discarding the popular impression that it is a criminal community secretly controlled through a centralized structure. Gambetta constructs a theoretical framework, supported by evidence obtained from the mafiosi trials of the 1980s in Italy, that ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
