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#327592 Criminologia

Reversible Destiny. Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo.

Author
PublisherUniversity of California Press.
Date of publ.
Details cm.15x22, pp.339, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Testo in inglese.
AbstractReversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition of a dense connective web of political and financial protectors during the Cold War era, and the sad reality that repressing it easily risks harming vulnerable people and communities. Charting the efforts of both the judiciary and a citizen's social movement to reverse the mafia's economic, political, and cultural power, the authors establish a framework for understanding both the difficulties and the accomplishments of Sicily's multifaceted antimafia efforts.
EAN9780520236097
ConditionsUsato, come nuovo
EUR 7.00
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