"Wanted: Mafia boss" - essay on the personology of organized crime

Despite an abundance of mafia romaticism both in litarary form and in social science the psychological study of personality of prominent organized crime figures is almost completely absent. Criminological attempts to understand how the mafia kingpin's mind works have failed so far because they...

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Main Author: Bovenkerk, Frank 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2000
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2000, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-242
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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