Editors:
- Shines a new light on the roles of women within criminal networks, roles that in reality are often less traditional than researchers used to think
- Contains contributions from psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, prosecutors and journalists
- Contributors have combined quantitative methods (statistical data, historical research) with qualitative methods such as personal interviews to come to a complete picture
Part of the book series: Studies of Organized Crime (SOOC, volume 5)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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A History of Women in the Mafia
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Front Matter
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An International Comparison
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Front Matter
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About this book
Where is a woman’s place in the mob? Does she even have one? Is the rise in women’s involvement in organized crime the darker side of their increased presence in the legitimate workplace, or simply a reworking of the mafia’s traditional male attitudes cloaked in the guise of women’s emancipation?
The insightful essays in Women and the Mafia seek to answer these questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and trace the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world. This book pulls back the code of silence and shines a light on the dark image of women entangled in organized crime.
The surprising first hand accounts of mafia women in Italy not only reveal women in power, "generals in skirts", but also tales of severe abuse and violence against women.
The book introduces us to the professional women of the Argentine "mafia state", Albanian human traffickers, spies for the Russian mob, runners for Brazilian numbers rackets, and the mystique of the American gangster moll.
"When something is risky, who do they send? Women … My aunt … can kill a person with her bare hands … if she were to see me now … she would shoot me down in the middle of the street; she’s got no problem with that …
My mother made my brother feel like the boss; but she was the one who ran everything; he was the boss on the outside, but my mother had the real power … women are in charge, nothing you can do about it."
Rita Di Giovine, state’s witness against the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.
Editors and Affiliations
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Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Giovanni Fiandaca
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women and the Mafia
Book Subtitle: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures
Editors: Giovanni Fiandaca
Series Title: Studies of Organized Crime
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36542-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-36537-4Published: 15 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2265-6Published: 29 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-36542-8Published: 04 September 2007
Series ISSN: 1571-5493
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 300
Additional Information: Original Italian edition published by Università degli Studi di Palermo
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Sciences, general