Letizia Paoli: 3 books
Mafia Brotherhoods
Organized Crime, Italian Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Relying on previously undisclosed confessions of former mafia members now cooperating with the police, Letizia Paoli provides a clinically accurate portrait of mafia behavior, motivations, and structure in Italy. The mafia, Paoli demonstrates, are essentially multifunctional ritual brotherhoods focused...
The Sports Doping Market
Understanding Supply and Demand, and the Challenges of Their Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This book examines sports doping from production and distribution, detection and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from athletes most at risk to the role of organized crime in sports doping,...
The World Heroin Market
Can Supply Be Cut?
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Heroin is universally considered the world's most harmful illegal drug. This is due not only to the damaging effects of the drug itself, but also to the spread of AIDS tied to its use. Burgeoning illegal mass consumption in the 1960s and 1970s has given rise to a global market for heroin and other...