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.
Author(s): Giovanni Fiandaca (Editor)
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 307
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
Part I. A History of Women in the Mafia......Page 14
1. Doing It for Themselves or Standing in for Their Men? Women in the Neapolitan Camorra (1950–2003)......Page 15
2. Mafia Women: The Affirmation of a Female Pseudo-Subject. The Case of the 'Ndrangheta......Page 24
3. Women in the 'Ndrangheta: The Serraino–Di Giovine Case......Page 51
4. Women in the Sacra Corona Unita......Page 57
5. Symbolic Domination and Active Power: Female Roles in Criminal Organizations......Page 71
6. Women in Mafia Organizations......Page 91
7. Women and Other Mafia-Type Criminal Organizations......Page 106
8. Female Visibility in the Mafia World: Press Review 1980 to 2001......Page 110
Part II. An International Comparison......Page 140
9. Women in Organized Crime in Albania......Page 141
10. Women in Organized Crime in Argentina......Page 151
11. Women in Organized Crime in Brazil......Page 182
12. Women in Organized Crime in Japan......Page 206
13. Women in Organized Crime in Germany......Page 219
14. Women in Organized Crime in Russia......Page 225
15. Women in Organized Crime in the United States......Page 235
Part III. Conclusion......Page 283
16. The Reasoning behind this Research; an Evaluation of the Results......Page 284
B......Page 302
E......Page 303
L......Page 304
P......Page 305
T......Page 306
Z......Page 307
