Public and parliamentary inquiries devoted to the Sicilian countryside in the early 1900s include no mention of the gabelloti as a significant criminal problem (Duggan 1988).

XREF: Implication that the gabelloti's criminalization or rise in power may be a later or more complex phenomenon than assumed — relates to historical construction of criminal categories.

Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Busi…, loc. 215