Longtime mob reporter George Anastasia explains how intensive electronic eavesdropping revealed dialogue that surpassed Hollywood scripts.
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The legendary agenda rossa contained extensive notes on how organised crime operated in a particularly turbulent period in Italian history.
Women are often victims of these highly patriarchal crime systems – but they can also be powerful decision makers and exploiters of others.
Organised crime gangs appear to have realised that committing fewer murders enables them to fly under the radar more easily.
The mafia boss is the last known face of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. But his capture represents the end of an era, not the end of the mafia in Sicily.
The former ‘boss of all bosses’ has died aged 87 while serving 26 life sentences.
Gangs of career criminals in Britain look very different to the stories told by Scorcese or Coppola. They are fluid, multi-cultural and recent research sheds new light on how they use the dirty money.
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor at University of Milan and Executive Director of the CLEAN Unit on the economics of crime at Bocconi University, Bocconi University
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Adjunct Professor of Law and Justice Studies, Rowan University