Marrying for power: Gendered alliances in mafias (IMAGE)

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Marrying for power: Gendered alliances in mafias

Caption

‘Ndrangheta matrimonial alliance network: structure, core, and tie composition. (A) Undirected network of inter-clan matrimonial alliances (largest connected component); nodes represent families and node size is proportional to eigenvector centrality; red nodes indicate clans classified as powerful (per the La C Play classification), blue nodes other clans; labels show powerful clans. (B) k-core backbone of the same network (upper quartile coreness), using the same encoding for node size and clan status. (C) Composition of unique alliances by clan status: powerful–powerful (red), powerful–other / other–powerful (purple), and other–other (blue).

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Catino et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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