Organized crime in three regions: comparing the Veneto, Liverpool, and Chicago

Lavorgna, Anita; Lombardo, Robert M.; Sergi, Anna

doi:10.1007/s12117-013-9189-1

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“…This finding is consistent with what has been put forth in the academic research, which has emphasized the substantial presence of OC in the central and northern regions of the country (Varese 2006;Lavorgna et al 2013;Calderoni 2011Calderoni , 2014. It should also be noted that only a limited number of news articles (14, equal to only 3,2 percent of the total number of news articles) covered the presence of OC in a foreign country.…”

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“…Especially since 2009, there has been increasing attention paid in the press to the processes of expansion of the traditional southern mafias toward other Italian regions, similarly to the increasing attention in academia to the processes of colonization and delocalization in recent years (Varese 2006;Lavorgna et al 2013). When mafias are on the move, the press language tends to change: mafias are something that arrived at a certain point in time, and are non-endogenous to the territory.…”

Section: Mafia As a Social Powermentioning

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“…This type of OC tends to operate at the margins of society and their opportunistic presence in certain territories is generally linked to trafficking activities. These criminal networks are sometimes made up of homogenous ethnic groups operating in Italy (Paoli 2007), but often these networks are formed by different ethnicities (Lavorgna et al 2013). …”

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Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press

Ronco

Lavorgna

2016

Trends Organ Crim

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Organized crime has long captured the attention of media, with books, movies, television, and the press offering different representations of what organized crime is. These representations tend to vary in different countries according to the specific coverage and reporting preferences of local media. The ways in which organized crime is framed by the media is of great importance, as mediated images of organized crime may have powerful effects on both the general public and policy-makers. The narrative presented, however, might be distorted and not fully correspond to the notion of organized crime as framed by academic communities.Particularly in the Italian scenario, scholarly definitions and narratives around organized crime have evolved and have been refined meaningfully over the years, presenting a complex, multi-layered, and diversified criminal panorama. Several studies have recently addressed press representations of Italian organized crime in the foreign press. However, the way in which the Italian press has represented the changing rhetoric on organized crime has so far been under-investigated. This research presents the results of a longitudinal media analysis of a selection of Italian newspapers, which aims to inspect the ways in which the press has represented the threats posed by organized crime over time.

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Section: Mafia As a Social Powermentioning

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Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press

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Lavorgna

2016

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“…Organised crime research in the UK draws towards the consensus that the phenomenon is sustained by collusion, corruption and complacency, which makes it difficult to excavate facts (Gounev and Ruggiero, 2012;Congram, Bell and Lauchs, 2013;Lavorgna, Lombardo and Sergi, 2013). In the UK, Wright (2006) their arguments on what is meant by the description "organised" in the term "organised crime" and how there are various ways of answering this question, including the suggestion that this supposed organisation is intermittent, flexible and weak, rather than hierarchical and stable (Coles, 2001;Naylor, 2004;van Duyne, 1996;).…”

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Ride to die: masculine honour and collective identity in the motorcycle underworld

Rahman

Lynes

2018

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This article discusses the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld. It does this by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then uses the biography of the founding member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club for a critical analysis. We are interested in understanding the role of masculine honour and collective identity, and its influences in relation to violence-namely fatal violence in the motorcycle underworld. We argue that motorcycle gangs are extreme examples of what Hall (2012) considers 'criminal undertakers'-individuals who take 'special liberties' often as a last resort.

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“…Problems with access to data and measurements of the threats and their costs to society persist. While crimes like drug trafficking or human trafficking have acquired an independent status in research, autonomous from the 'organised crime' rhetoric (Weitzer, 2014), research on criminal networks across the UK has looked at specific places like Liverpool (Lavorgna et al, 2013) or London (Hobbs, 2013) or other hotspots across the country (Edwards and Jeffray, 2014) or at specific crimes, such as money laundering (Leong, 2007) trafficking in artistic objects (Mackenzie, 2011;Dietzler, 2013), counterfeit pharmaceuticals (Lavorgna, 2014a), illegal tobacco (Edwards and Jeffray, 2014), national child trafficking (Brayley et al, 2011) and even counterfeit luxury fashion (Wall and Large, 2010).…”

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National Security vs Criminal law. Perspectives, Doubts and Concerns on the Criminalisation of Organised Crime in England and Wales

Sergi

2016

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National security vs criminal law. Perspectives, doubts and concerns on the criminalisation of organised crime in England and Wales. Abstract:This paper will interpret and critically analyse the new offence for organised crime in England and Wales (Section 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2015) from a criminological perspective in light of evidence found in research in the country. It will argue that changes in the law relate to changes in political narratives rather than to variations in the criminal panorama of organised crime. It will discuss these changes within three perspectives, which address various levels of concern: a narrative perspective, which reflects on the overlapping of meanings in the use of the words 'organised crime'; an evolution perspective, which reflects on the origins of the new participation offences with reference to both national and international pressures; a management perspective, which reflects on some of the immediate effects of the new offences of organised crime on the criminal justice system. This paper will conclude that political narratives have indeed influenced criminal policy, while there is no significant change in the phenomenon of organised crime to justify such narratives.

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Organized crime in three regions: comparing the Veneto, Liverpool, and Chicago

Cited by 18 publications

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Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press

Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press

Ride to die: masculine honour and collective identity in the motorcycle underworld

National Security vs Criminal law. Perspectives, Doubts and Concerns on the Criminalisation of Organised Crime in England and Wales

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