Synopsis
Reporter Mark Franchetti investigates Italy's deadliest mafia, the Camorra, to learn how it's survived for so long in a country at the heart of Europe.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: Italy's Bloodiest Mafia
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Sociology | What are the patterns and trends in crime? | The social distribution of offending and victimisation; global crime; green crime; how countries in the global south may be used by transnational criminal groups and companies.
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