There are now mafia-controlled companies competing with perfectly legal undertakings, but enjoying advantages over them, such as access to investment capital from suspect sources. The new mafia operates in a grey area, concerning itself with the laundering of 'dirty money' as well as with productivity, but it does represent a model different in kind from the purely parasitic mafia of the past. Mafia companies, far from conforming to the laws of peaceful competition, have introduced an element of violence into the marketplace. Catanzaro examines the ownership and objectives of such companies, drawing attention to the sectors in which they operate and to their need to serve such purposes as the recycling of money derived from criminal enterprises.