Mafiacraft by Deborah Puccio-Den is a book where culture and civil commitment come together. The dedication “to Judge Giovanni Falcone, the first anthropologist of the mafia,” which opens the book, is particularly significant. In fact, the turning point introduced by Giovanni Falcone in the fight against the mafia is fueled by a method closely resembling that of anthropology, and it intensely questions the meaning of silence. This led to an extraordinary broadening of the horizons of justice, shifting from a purely normative dimension to the anthropology of law, which produced fundamental results, respectively in the analysis of criminal phenomena, the relationship between justice and society, and the internationalization of justice. However, to truly fulfill the commitment to overcome the “law of silence” upon which the history of the Sicilian mafia was built (as explained by Deborah Puccio-Den’s profound reflections), there is still one step to take: the full implementation of the “right to the truth.”
