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Challenging the Mafia Mystique = Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation /

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Title/Author:	Challenging the Mafia Mystique/ by Rino Coluccello.
Reminder of title:	Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation /
Author:	Coluccello, Rino.
Description:	XI, 260 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—20th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280503
ISBN:	9781137280503

Challenging the Mafia Mystique = Cosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation /
Coluccello, Rino.

Challenging the Mafia MystiqueCosa Nostra from Legitimisation to Denunciation /[electronic resource] :by Rino Coluccello. - 1st ed. 2016. - XI, 260 p.online resource.

The Sicilian Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is one of the most intriguing criminal phenomena in the world. It is an unparalleled organised criminal grouping that over almost two centuries has been able not only to successfully permeate licit and illicit economy, politics and civil society, but also to influence and exercise authoritative power over both the underworld and the upper-world. This criminal phenomenon has been a captivating conundrum for scholars of different disciplines who have tried to explain with various paradigms the reasons behind the emergence and consolidation of the mafia. Challenging the Mafia Mystique provides an analysis of the changes the Sicilian mafia has undergone, from legitimisation to denunciation. Rino Coluccello highlights how, from the very emergence of the organised criminal groups in Sicily, a culture existed that was protective and tolerant of the mafia. He argues that the various conceptualisations of the mafia that dominated the public and scientific debate in the nineteenth and more than half of the twentieth century created a mystique, which legitimised the mafia and contributed to their success. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of organised crime, Italian politics and Italian literature.

ISBN: 9781137280503

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137280503doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254198
Literature, Modern—20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN770-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809.04

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