Mafia-type Organisations and Extortion in Italy

The analysis of the different Mafias of today benefits from a huge amount of empirical data produced by investigators, allowing us to outline more reliable indexes of the penetration of Mafiosi in given territories, and to estimate the size of their activities in a transparent and empirically testable way. This book, building on innovative methodology originally introduced by the Fondazione Rocco Chinnici, enlarges our understanding of the complex and dynamic existence of today’s Mafias. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.