"Trash Is Gold": Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis

Past, Elena

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“…Italy also has about 5,000 illegal landfill sites, especially in the region of Campania which hardly produces any waste (Senior and Mazza, 2004). Corruption of local authorities helps these illegal organizations to continue their business largely undisturbed (A D'Amato and Zoli 2011; Past, 2013).…”

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Waste crime from three criminological perspectives

Bisschop¹,

Huisman²

2018

Green Crimes and Dirty Money

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This paper focuses on the waste-crime nexus. We discuss which implications different criminological approaches to the waste-crime nexus and their respective etiological explanations and views on financial incentives hold for crime control and harm prevention. After all, the criminogenic opportunities of waste as a product and a sector are utilized by corporations as well as criminal organizations. This makes waste crime a topic of research for corporate crime and organized crime scholars. Moreover, waste crime is also a topic of green criminological research. For each of these three perspectives, we discuss what consequences the theories have for controlling and preventing waste crime and whether the contemporary regulation and enforcement answers to these requirements. Besides existing criminological studies on waste crime, this paper builds on the finds of our own studies on the Dutch waste sector and the Belgian trade in e-waste. We also pay attention to how these three criminological perspectives are reflected in reports and recommendations on waste crime by NGOs and international governmental organizations. For each of the three perspectives, we discuss a couple of prominent cases of waste crime that reflect the framing of the nature and the causes of the theoretical perspectives.

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Waste crime from three criminological perspectives

Bisschop¹,

Huisman²

2018

Green Crimes and Dirty Money

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“…11 Petraitis (2017) makes the inverse point about longitudinal docs: that they are primarily used to measure social change within a single national context and are rarely compared or looked at from a transnational perspective. 12 For more on these films, as well as the crisis, seeAngelone (2011) andPast (2013).…”

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Regimes and their Refuse: Filming Russia in Transition

Shpolberg¹

2023

Slavica Bergensia

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Hanna Polak's 2014 documentary, Something Better to Come (Nadejdą lepsze czasy), condenses fourteen years in the life of a girl into an hour and a half. Like Richard Linklater's fiction film Boyhood, released the same year, it offered audiences the pleasure of seeing a child grow into an adult, of tracing considerable changes in character and appearance. Polak's protagonist Yula, however, is no ordinary girl: for much of the film, from age ten to twenty-one, she lives with her mother on the svalka, 1 the largest garbage dump in Europe -located just thirteen miles from the Kremlin. 2 Moreover, the years the film covers are not ordinary years: they mark Vladimir Putin's ascent, from his election as president of Russia in 2000 to his consolidation of power following massive protests in 2011-2012 and the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Consequently, the film becomes a meditation on the first decade and a half of Putin's reign, as well as the human and environmental cost of Russia's economic upturn."Longitudinal documentary," where a filmmaker returns to check up on her subject over many years, has an appropriately long history. The approach was pioneered by the East German Children of Golzow (Die Kinder von Golzow, 1961-2007 series, before being popularized by the more famous British Up! series (1964-2019) (Petraitis 2017, 1). 3 1 In English, svalka translates as dump, landfill, or junkyard. 2 In transcribing Russian names, it is common to revert to the legal version, which in this case would be Iuliia. Polak chooses to approximate the diminutive form of the name in the film's promotional materials, however, and consequently gives it as Yula. 3 The fact that several of these projects were launched in the 1960s suggests a connection between more portable cameras, synchronized sound, and cheaper film © masha shpolberg • 2023 Slavica Bergensia 14 • doi: https://doi.org/10.15845/slavberg.21.c130This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by licence.

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“… 2. As documented in the recently declassified deposition of the former mafia member, then collaborator with justice, Carmine Schiavone on the involvement of the Casalesi clan (that is, the most powerful Camorra clan) in waste trafficking (Parliamentary Inquiry Committee 1997, declassified in October 2013), it is at least since the mid-1980s that sand mining and illegal waste disposal have occurred in Campania, leading to huge problems in an area that was traditionally praised for its beauty and natural resources (Andretta, 2009; Ferrara et al, 2013; Past, 2013; Sales, 2012). Also Lombardia, where there is a very strong presence of groups affiliated to the ’Ndrangheta (Lavorgna et al, 2013; Varese, 2006), proved to be susceptible to serious environmental crimes, and since the 1960s it is estimated that up to 70 percent of firms operating in the earthmoving and construction sectors and operating in the area are ascribable to people potentially linked to the ’Ndrangheta (Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, 2012a).…”

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Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: A comparative analysis

Rege

Lavorgna

2016

European Journal of Criminology

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Despite the devastating short-and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, organized crime groups have emerged as prominent illegal suppliers of soil and sand. The proposed study focuses on an understudied research area at the intersection between organized crime and environmental crimes, and offers a trans-comparative study of illegal soil and sand mining conducted by Indian and Italian organized crime groups with two main objectives. First, a comparative analysis of the organizational mechanisms, operational practices, threat management, and supporting cultural, regulatory, and policing factors is conducted. Second, a discussion of how these groups reflect mainstream models and theories of organized crime is offered.

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"Trash Is Gold": Documenting the Ecomafia and Campania's Waste Crisis

Cited by 9 publications

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Waste crime from three criminological perspectives

Waste crime from three criminological perspectives

Regimes and their Refuse: Filming Russia in Transition

Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: A comparative analysis

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