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The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies. University of Toronto Press. 978-1-4426-2908-0. Finckenauer, James O.; Waring, Elin J. (January 1998).
this annotated bibliography groups, 772 books, journal and newspaper articles, and other published materials on 'mafia' according to their interpretation of the term.
The project is developing an open digital collaborative bibliography of American academic literature on Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, and civic society’s anti-mafia movements in Sicily.
based on original research, partly in palermo's criminal archives, this book studies the phenomenon popularly known as the mafia and describes it as a distinct subculture whose behavioral patterns have been largely determined by the specific political, economic, and social history of sicily.
Researching the Mafia has become easier with the increasing number of memoirs published by ex-mobsters detailing their careers in organized crime. This body of literature helps explain 1) why people become mobsters, 2) how the Mafia is structured and 3) why so many maifiosi are breaking the mob's code of silence.
- Thomas A. Firestone
- 1993
Mafia, hierarchically structured society of criminals of primarily Italian or Sicilian birth or extraction. The term applies to the traditional criminal organization in Sicily and also to a criminal organization in the United States. Most scholars agree that the Mafia emerged in Sicily in the 19th.
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Feb 7, 2006 · The Mafia was exported and adapted to North America by a small group of Italian immigrants, mostly from Sicily and Calabria. In Sicily, and later in the US and Canada, Mafia came to refer to an organized international body of criminals of Sicilian origin, known as Cosa Nostra.
