Italian mafias across Europe

Dagnes, Joselle; Donatiello, Davide; Storti, Luca

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“…They can include a certain degree of organisation in as much as they embody the process of self-creation of Foucauldian concern (Foucault 1970) and Dewey's conceptualisation of habits as pre-condition of knowledge (Dewey, [1922] Dewey 1983. Scripts are quite popular in criminological research, as a way of generating, organising, and systematising knowledge -accent on generating -about the procedural aspects and procedural requirements of crime commission (Cornish 1994). In constitutive (narrative and critical) criminology (Henry and Milovanovic 1996), however, scripts are texts, stories, narratives that are constantly growing and, therefore, weaving into one another while 'constructing' realities.…”

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“…This claim is based on the versatility and flexibility of the clans in different criminal markets, as well as their ability to influence politicians, entrepreneurs and other social actors through infiltration, corruption, and connivance. Europol (2013) warned about the reach of 'ndrangheta clans in Europe in both illegal and legal markets (Savona and Riccardi 2015;Dagnes et al 2019); a recent study (Sergi and Rizzuti 2022) has found that of all Italian mafia groups in Europe, 'ndrangheta clans are the most active in drug trafficking and money laundering. Clans' activities are traceable outside Europe in countries such as Canada, Australia, USA as well as in Latin America (Sergi 2022;Varese 2011).…”

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To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations

Sergi

2023

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The ‘ndrangheta is a mafia group from Calabria, Southern Italy. Considerable efforts have been made to understand the structures and the organisation of this mafia, not only in the province of Reggio Calabria where it originated, but also in other Calabrian provinces and even outside the Calabrian region. Building on judicial data from a recent maxi-trial (Rinascita-Scott) against ‘ndrangheta clans in the province of Vibo Valentia, we build a theoretical approach based on narrative criminology applied to organisational studies of secretive organisations. We find a ‘script of narratives’ emerging from collaborators and affiliates’ stories – about socialisation, discretion, and accreditation - which reveals how recognition and constitution of ‘added’ ‘ndrangheta clans are thought to work. This script helps us understand the constitutive power of narratives in mafias and critically approach the study of such organisations.

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To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations

Sergi

2023

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Anti-mafia Cross-border: Conceptual and Procedural Asymmetries in the Fight against Italian Mafias in Europe

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Rizzuti

2022

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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This article explores some of the challenges to fighting against Italian mafias and mafia-type organized crime in Europe, specifically in eight countries—Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Romania, the UK, and Italy. Data have been collected and analysed in two phases: first, from open sources (including media and official reports) and judicial files; secondly, from 40 individual or collective interviews. European institutions still struggle to counter the mobility of Italian mafias because of conceptual asymmetries in policing mafia-type crimes/groups and procedural challenges. We present two analytical foci: first, the existence of a conceptual tension in the definition of mafia and mafia mobility between Italy and European countries and institutions; second, emerging procedural asymmetries in countering mafias across borders, which relate more broadly to cross-border countering of organized crime. This article wishes to screenshot the state of the art and advance some reflections, without pushing any specific theoretical framework. After exploring the two main analytical foci emerging in this research, we advance recommendations.

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Italian mafias across Europe

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To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations

To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations

Anti-mafia Cross-border: Conceptual and Procedural Asymmetries in the Fight against Italian Mafias in Europe

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