The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
by Diego Gambetta
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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia.Tags
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Diego Gambetta is professor of sociology at the University of Oxford.
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Common Knowledge
- Epigraph*
- Terre des dieux et des héros! Pauvre Sicile!
Que sont devenues tes brillantes chimères?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Voyage en Sicile
Impariamo a riflettere in modo sereno e «laico» sui metodi di Cosa Nostra.
GIOVANNI FALCONE - Original language
- Italian
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- Sociology, Economics, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
- DDC/MDS
- 364.106 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Organized Crime
- LCC
- HV6453 .I83 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- English, German, Italian, Polish
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