The Impact of Organised Crime on State Social Control: Organised Criminal Groups and Local Governance on the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa

Lambrechts, Derica

doi:10.1080/03057070.2012.749060

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“…Rapley (2012) employed a political–economy approach to analyze the power of criminal gangs in post-Apartheid South Africa as agents able to supply services that the formal institutions were not equipped to provide in a period of state formation. Similarly, Lambrechts (2012) concentrated on the role of organized criminal groups with respect to local governance in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. Her field research showed that gangs controlling specific territories were also acting as guardians and gatekeepers, protecting local inhabitants from intruders and rival gangs settled in other areas of the city.…”

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Security Governance: Mafia Control over Ordinary Crimes

Aziani

Favarin

Campedelli

2019

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives: This study tests whether mafias, as archetypical criminal organizations that exert control over local communities, protect their territories against ordinary criminality. Our hypothesis is that mafias have both the incentives and the capacities to supply security governance to specific territories. This is a distinctive feature of mafias that deserves to be considered. Method: To understand whether mafias’ territorial control is associated with lower levels of ordinary criminality, we conduct a panel data analysis on 110 Italian provinces (2004 to 2015). System generalized method of moment and Driscoll–Kraay standard errors are performed to test our hypothesis. This study exploits an aggregated measure of thefts, robberies, and assaults as dependent variable. A standardized index derived from the number of active mafia groups in a province is our proxy of mafia control. Results: The article statistically shows that mafias limit ordinary criminality, whereas less stable and unstructured criminal groups do not. Conclusions: The results indicate that crime prevention and the maintenance of public order should be considered among the pillars of mafia’s governance. By controlling and reducing ordinary crimes, mafias overcome the role of law enforcement and institutional justice increasing consensus among the population. Consequently, the state may better contrast mafias by becoming a stronger supplier of security.

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Section: Problem Formulationmentioning

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Security Governance: Mafia Control over Ordinary Crimes

Aziani

Favarin

Campedelli

2019

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…The gangs of the Western Cape have undergone a transformation since the early research of scholars such as Pinnock (1984) and Schärf (1990). In the contemporary context, gangs are characterized by a high level of social organization (Goga, 2014; Kinnes, 2000; Petrus, 2013), have a more established link with drug kingpins (Standing, 2006), are involved in networks of violence (Goga et al, 2014) and are much more involved in challenging the governance of the state than previously imagined (Lambrechts, 2012).…”

Section: Gangs Gang Violence and Social Dynamics In The Western Capementioning

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New social bandits? A comparative analysis of gangsterism in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa

Petrus

Kinnes

2018

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Gang violence has been extensively highlighted as an issue of national concern in South Africa. Gangs also pose concerns about the social contexts of the communities in which they are found. The Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces have had the most prolific occurrences of gangsterism. Here gangs have demonstrated unique characteristics that set them apart from gangs in other areas. This article examines the context of gangsterism in the selected provinces by means of a comparative analysis. The purpose is to provide some strategies for effective intervention. The discussion also interrogates how or why intervention efforts may have failed and what could be improved in order to strengthen the chances of success of future interventions in affected communities.

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“…These groups provide their own set of survival and operational activities, most often as a result of a void of state co-ordinated strategies. The voids as a result of weakened state structures are filled by a series of non-state actors (Lambrechts, 2012).…”

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Modern State Development, Capacity, and Institutions

Lambrechts¹,

Fourie²

2017

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The Impact of Organised Crime on State Social Control: Organised Criminal Groups and Local Governance on the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa

Cited by 21 publications

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Security Governance: Mafia Control over Ordinary Crimes

Security Governance: Mafia Control over Ordinary Crimes

New social bandits? A comparative analysis of gangsterism in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa

Modern State Development, Capacity, and Institutions

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