Marco Santoro is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bologna.

1. Mafia, Politics, and Social Theory: An Introduction
2. The 'Mafia' in 'Mafia Studies': (Re)constructing a Sociological Object
3. What is Right with the Economic Theory of the Mafia?
4. The Public Life of Mafiosi
5. The Mafioso's Gift or, Making Sense of an "Offer You Cannot Refuse"
6. Blood, Bund, and (Personal) Bonds: The Mafia as an Institutional Type
7. Mafia as an Elementary Form of Politics