The Businesses of Italian Mafias

Savona, Ernesto Ugo

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“…In 2007, for instance, Paoli underlined the successes that the law enforcement responses targeting traditional Italian mafias had had since the 1990s, going as far as seriously undermining their traditional criminal capital (for the successful fight against the Sicilian mafia, see also Fiandaca and Lupo 2014). However, this interpretation contrasts with the more recent academic view, which has underlined the "conversion of the 'mafia extortionist' into the 'mafia entrepreneur'" (Savona 2015), as well as with the view of the major Italian institutional actors. For instance, the newly elected President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the President of the Court of Appeal of Milan, Giovanni Canzio, have recently painted a picture of mafia-type OC as a current (and undefeated) threat in Italy.…”

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“…As regards to Italy, the Mafia Presence Index (MPI) developed in Savona and Riccardi (2015) confirms the strong mafia presence in traditional southern regions (Puglia, Calabria, Campania, and Sicilia) and reveals a strong mafia presence in certain areas of north-western and central Italy, particularly Lazio, Liguria, Piemonte, Basilicata, and Lombardia (Savona 2015).…”

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“…Scholarly definitions and narratives around OC have evolved and been refined meaningfully over the years (see, among others, Santino 2006;Bianchini and Sicurella 2007;Paoli 2007;Lavorgna and Sergi 2014a;Savona 2015), presenting a complex, multi-layered, and diversified criminal panorama. While mafia groups are still in the spotlight, practitioners and experts agree that the nature of OC in Italy is much more varied (Sergi 2015: 666).…”

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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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2016

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“…It is striking that Italian Mafia groups do not invest in sectors with the highest economic profitability. On the contrary, control of the territory seems to explain their investment behavior better than economic factors (Savona 2015). Furthermore, offenders in Dutch organized crime cases primarily invest in their countries of origin and economic sectors familiar to them: proximity explains their investment behavior better than power or profit motives (Kruisbergen, Kleemans, and Kouwenberg 2015).…”

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Organized Crime and Places

Kleemans¹

2018

Oxford Handbooks Online

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This chapter begins by discussing the three types of organized crime—racketeering, transit crime, and the local provision of illegal goods and services—and the significance of place. It then considers the role of places and the (built) environment for organized crime. The main message is that place has a different meaning for these three types of organized crime and raises several theoretical challenges. As these types of organized crime often require a higher degree of social organization than opportunistic street-level crime, the chapter elaborates on two theoretical concepts that should be included in the study of organized crime and place: social opportunity structure and offender convergence settings.

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“…The Mafia's presence has been negatively affecting social and economic development in Italy from more than 150 years (Gambetta, 2000 ; Daniele and Marani, 2011 ; Dalla Chiesa, 2014 ). Specifically, by means of violent and illegal instruments, the Mafia hinders Italian financial, cultural, and social development through its members' infiltration in the most important institutional and political networks (Ruggiero, 2010 ; Pinotti, 2015 ; Savona, 2015 ).…”

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Promoting Awareness about Psychological Consequences of Living in a Community Oppressed by the Mafia: A Group-Analytic Intervention

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The effects of the Mafia have been extensively studied from sociological, economic, and historical points of view. However, little research has investigated the influence of the Mafia on individuals and communities in terms of its psychological and social impact. In order to contribute to the advancement of our understanding of the psychological effects of the Mafia on individuals and communities and to promote a participative process of social change, a group analytic intervention was conducted within a Community Based Participatory Research carried out in Corleone, a small Sicilian town with a historically recognized role in the evolution of the Mafia, as well as in the fight against its control. Qualitative findings from the group intervention revealed the development of an awareness process that allowed participants to become aware of their social unconscious anxieties and defenses and to recognize and manage the strong emotional impact related to the Mafia's presence in their lives. Highlighting how psychological processes can have negative impacts on individual and collective capacity to pursuit transformation and resilience, this article provides important insight on how clinical psychology may operate in socio-cultural contexts to promote the reconstruction of the traumatic social dimensions in the community.

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The Businesses of Italian Mafias

Cited by 9 publications

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Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press

Changing representations of organized crime in the Italian press

Organized Crime and Places

Promoting Awareness about Psychological Consequences of Living in a Community Oppressed by the Mafia: A Group-Analytic Intervention

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