Atavistic Monsters and Hedonistic Culture

This paper argues that American organized crime is composed of atavistic cultural groups who organize themselves according to an antiquated social structure emphasizing ethnicity. La Cosa Nostra: U. S. Families (i.e., the Mafia), for example, is composed only of men who are of Italian and Sicilian d...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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