Women and the Mafia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fiandaca, Giovanni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: STUDIES IN ORGANIZED CRIME, 5
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Social Sciences, general.

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? Th...