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This book explores the way in which organized crime gangs have adapted and evolved in synch with ever-expanding technologies, using these not only to update their popular image, but also the ways in which they conduct their secretive operations.

This book explores the way in which organized crime gangs have adapted and evolved in synch with ever-expanding technologies, using these not only to update their popular image, but also the ways in which they conduct their secretive operations.

The book demystifies and deconstructs traditional notions of organized crime and offers an interdisciplinary textbook based on an analysis of its history, its codes, its language, symbols, rituals and lifestyles, in short, a cultural introduction to organized crime.

The book demystifies and deconstructs traditional notions of organized crime and offers an interdisciplinary textbook based on an analysis of its history, its codes, its language, symbols, rituals and lifestyles, in short, a cultural introduction to organized crime.

Despite depictions to the contrary, the mafia is not a cadre of noble and righteous warriors, a class of citizens working in the shadows but upholding traditional values. Instead, the authors argue, it is a brutal, violent, and ignoble organization that ultimately violates the boundaries of acceptable behavior both within the family and without.

An in-depth exploration of the Mafia culture.