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Critically examine the role of Women in the Mafia Organisation.
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Critically examine the role of Women in the Mafia Organisation. Women involved in the mafia organization have been portrayed for years in the media, through Hollywood films and various newspapers as silent, cowed creatures draped in black. Their lives are dominated by the running of the home and children. Unseeing, unthinking, they ignore the violence that is rife within their lives and only break they silence at the graveside to express themselves over the death of a husband, son or brother. However, recently new pieces of evidence have come to the forefront to suggest otherwise. The question now is has this involvement of women in mafia organizations been around since the existence of the Mafia, and only now come into the limelight due to the changes in investigations and technology, or is it a new occurrence brought about by equality catching up with mafia and the need to improve within a...
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