There are many stories about women and organized crime. There is the mother from a large criminal family in Berlin, whose sons all had to go to prison at some point, which she commented on with the sentence “Prison makes men.” There is the Eastern European forced prostitute who wants to escape the street prostitution and begins to lure young women from her homeland into prostitution. And there are historical female figures like Pupetta Maresca, the Camorra’s first female killer. In 1955, when she was heavily pregnant, she pulled a pistol out of her handbag and shot an enemy Camorrista as revenge for her husband’s murder.
Underrated and Dangerous: Women in Organized Crime – Panorama
