ISBN:
9780387365428
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 308 p, digital)
Series Statement:
STUDIES IN ORGANIZED CRIME 5
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Women and the Mafia
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Criminology
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Criminology
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Mafia
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Frau
;
Mittäterschaft
;
Organisiertes Verbrechen
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Frau
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Mittäterschaft
;
Frau
;
Mafia
;
Frau
;
Organisiertes Verbrechen
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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."
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Contributors; Introduction; Part I. A History of Women in the Mafia; 1. Doing It for Themselves or Standing in for Their Men? Women in the Neapolitan Camorra (1950-2003); 2. Mafia Women: The Affirmation of a Female Pseudo-Subject. The Case of the 'Ndrangheta; 3. Women in the 'Ndrangheta: The Serraino-Di Giovine Case; 4. Women in the Sacra Corona Unita; 5. Symbolic Domination and Active Power: Female Roles in Criminal Organizations; 6. Women in Mafia Organizations; 7. Women and Other Mafia-Type Criminal Organizations; 8. Female Visibility in the Mafia World: Press Review 1980 to 2001
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II. An International Comparison9. Women in Organized Crime in Albania; 10. Women in Organized Crime in Argentina; 11. Women in Organized Crime in Brazil; 12. Women in Organized Crime in Japan; 13. Women in Organized Crime in Germany; 14. Women in Organized Crime in Russia; 15. Women in Organized Crime in the United States; Part III. Conclusion; 16. The Reasoning behind this Research; an Evaluation of the Results; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-0-387-36542-8
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