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BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
John Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy’s Three Mafia (New York: PublicAffairs, 2014).
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2
Felia Allum, “Doing It for Themselves or Standing in for Their Men? Women in the Neapolitan Camorra (1950–2003),” Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures, ed. Giovanni Fiandaca (New York: Springer, 2010): 9–17.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4
Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Mobster Madonnas: The Rise of Women in Sicily’s Mafia,” The Daily Beast (December 17, 2017), https://www.thedailybeast.com/mobster-madonnas-the-rise-of-women-in-sicilys-mafia?ref=author.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5
Barbie Latza Nadeau, Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast (London: Oneworld Publications, 2018).
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 6
“Poliziotte in bikini arrestano una capoclan della Camorra,” La Repubblica (August 29, 2000), https://www.repubblica.it/online/cronaca/bossa/bossa/bossa.html.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7
4. SEX AND HONOR
“La Arcuri è Pupetta Maresca Quella vera: ‘Ha la mia tempra,’ ” Il Giornale di Vicenza Cultura (June 4, 2013), https://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/home/cultura/la-arcuri-%C3%A8-pupetta-maresca-quella-vera-ha-la-mia-tempra-1.331057.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
Franco Di Maria and Girolamo Lo Verso, “Women in Mafia Organizations,” Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures, ed. Giovanni Fiandaca (New York: Springer, 2010): 90.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2
Umberto Ursetta, Vittime e Ribelli: donne di ’ndrangheta da Lea Garofalo a Giuseppina Pesce (Cosenza, Italy: Luigi Pellegrini Editore, 2016).
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3
Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Bunga-Bunga Nation: Berlusconi’s Italy Hurts Women,” Newsweek (November 15, 2010), https://www.newsweek.com/bunga-bunga-nation-berlusconis-italy-hurts-women-69733.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4
Claudio Finelli, “Gay nei clan, il racconto di Saviano: ‘Per i boss sono una vergogna,’ ” Arcigay (November 16, 2016), https://www.arcigay.it/en/articoli/gay-nei-clan-il-racconto-di-saviano-per-i-boss-sono-una-vergogna/#.Ya5FslMo-Bs.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5
“Secondigliano, arrestato ‘Ketty’: il trans a capo degli scissionisti,” La Repubblica Napoli (February 12, 2009), https://napoli.repubblica.it/dettaglio/secondigliano-arrestato-ketty:-il-trans-a-capo-degli-scissionisti/1589581.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 6
“Bacio camorrista fuori alla questura,” Corriere del Mezzogiorno (June 8, 2011, updated June 9, 2011), https://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/cronaca/2011/8-giugno-2011/latitante-una-villa-camaldoliarrestato-reggente-clan-amato-190821145124.shtml.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7
5. ’TIL DEATH DO US PART
Barbie Latza Nadeau, “The Boss of Bosses Dies. Will Sicily’s Mafia Turn to the U.S. for Leadership?” The Daily Beast (November 18, 2017, updated November 20, 2017), https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-boss-of-bosses-dies-will-sicilys-mafia-turn-to-the-us-for-leadership.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
“Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, 83, dies in jail,” BBC (July 13, 2016), https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36782555.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2
Attilio Bolzoni and Francesco Viviano, “Mio marito capo dei capi? No, Provenzano à una vittima,” La Repubblica (December 13, 2000), https://www.repubblica.it/online/cronaca/riina/provenzano/provenzano.html.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3
Lorenzo Bodrero, “The Rise and Fall of Mafia Women,” Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (April 26, 2019), https://www.occrp.org/en/blog/9642-the-rise-and-fall-of-mafia-women.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4
Bodrero, “The Rise and Fall of Mafia Women.”
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5
Organized Crime and the Legal Economy: The Italian Case (Torino, Italy: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, 2016), http://unicri.it/sites/default/files/2021-06/UNICRI_Organized_Crime_and_Legal_Economy_report.pdf.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 6
Felia Allum, “Doing It for Themselves or Standing in for Their Men? Women in the Neapolitan Camorra (1950–2003),” Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures, ed. Giovanni Fiandaca (New York: Springer, 2010): 14.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7
Monica Massari and Cataldo Motta, “Women in the Sacra Corona Unita,” Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures, ed. Giovanni Fiandaca (New York: Springer, 2010): 63.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 8
6. TOXIC PARENTS
Cecilia Anesi and Giulio Rubino, “For Love or Money: An ’Ndrangheta Daughter on West Africa’s Cocaine Trail,” Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (November 13, 2017), https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/7249-for-love-or-money-an-ndrangheta-daughter-on-west-africa-s-cocaine-trail.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
Anesi and Rubino, “For Love or Money.”
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2
raytodd2017, “Global Web of Firms for Fraudsters Created by British Company Formations House,” https://raytodd.blog/2019/12/04/global-web-of-firms-for-fraudsters-created-by-british-company-formations-house/.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3
Barbie Nadeau and Sarah Aarthun, “ ‘Unimaginable:’ Italy mourns 3-Year-Old Killed in Suspected Mafia Hit,” CNN (June 21, 2014), https://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/29/world/europe/italy-child-mafia-hit/index.html.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4
Euronews, “Mafia Initiation Ritual Caught on Tape: Chilling ‘Poison’ Oath,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tod7Ct9_icE.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5
Gaia Pianigiani, “Breaking Up the Family as a Way to Break Up the Mob,” The New York Times (February 10, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/europe/breaking-up-the-family-as-a-way-to-break-up-the-mob.html.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 6
Italian Civil Code, Article. 315 bis.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7
7. DRUGS, GUNS, AND VATS OF ACID
La7 Attualità, “Vittorio Casamonica Canta ‘My Way,’ ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLpjn9rLG80.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
8. THE SIN OF CONFESSION
Elio Scribani, “Tagliai io la testa a Semerari aveva tradito un nostro accordo,” La Repubblica (May 25, 2010), https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/05/25/news/boss_ammaturo-4312237/.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
Anna Puglisi, Donne, mafia e antimafia (Trapani, Sicily: Di Girolamo Editore, 2012).
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015).
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 3
Beatrice Borromeo, “Parla ‘Mamma eroina,’ ergastolo per mafia: ‘Portai io la ’ndrangheta al Nord,’ ” Il Fatto Quotidiano (March 6, 2015), https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/03/06/parla-mamma-eroina-delle-prime-donne-lergastolo-per-mafia-ndrangheta-nord-portai/1483497/.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 4
Ombretta Ingrascì, “Women in the ’Ndrangheta: The Serraino–Di Giovine Case,” Women and the Mafia: Female Roles in Organized Crime Structures, ed. Giovanni Fiandaca (New York: Springer, 2010): 51.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 5
Lirio Abbate, “Calabria, la strage delle donne,” L’Espresso (July 24, 2012), https://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/cronaca/2012/07/24/news/calabria-la-strage-delle-donne-1.45133.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 6
Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Italian Mob Trades Weapons for Looted Art from ISIS in Libya,” The Daily Beast (October 18, 2016, updated April 13, 2017), https://www.thedailybeast.com/italian-mob-trades-weapons-for-looted-art-from-isis-in-libya.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 7
Natale Ciappina, “Palmi, storia d’amore e di ’Ndrangheta,” Magazine.it (February 22, 2021), https://www.magzine.it/rossella-casini-40-anni-fa/.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 8
9. DYING TO ESCAPE
Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Inside Europe’s Heroin Capital,” Newsweek (December 12, 2008), https://www.newsweek.com/inside-europes-heroin-capital-82831.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
Testimony from Salvatore Cortese, turncoat who shared a cell with Carlo Cosco.
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 2
REPORTING NOTES
Clare Longrigg, Mafia Women (London: Vintage,1998).
BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 1
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