Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures

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Giovanni Fiandaca
Springer Science & Business Media, Sep 4, 2007 - Social Science - 300 pages

The insightful essays in this book shine a new light on the roles of women within criminal networks, roles that in reality are often less traditional than researchers used to think. The book seeks to answer questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and traces the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world. The book offers up accounts of mafia women, and also tales of severe abuse and violence against women.

 

Contents

Doing It for Themselves or Standing in for Their Men?
9
The Affirmation of a Female PseudoSubject
19
The SerrainoDi Giovine Case
47
Women in the Sacra Corona Unita
53
Female Roles
67
Women in Mafia Organizations
87
Women and Other MafiaType Criminal Organizations
103
Women in Organized Crime in Albania
139
Women in Organized Crime in Brazil
181
Women in Organized Crime in Japan
205
Women in Organized Crime in Germany
219
Women in Organized Crime in Russia
225
Women in Organized Crime in the United States
235
The Reasoning behind this Research an Evaluation of the Results
285
Index
303
Copyright

Women in Organized Crime in Argentina
149

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