Search results for " Crime"

Determinants and consequences of the Anti-mafia entrepreneurial behavior: an empirical study on southern italian small-medium entreprises

2013

In this study we question what determinants lead firms to adopt anti-mafia behaviors and whether firms adopting anti-mafia behaviors “pay the piper” for their conduct through reduced financial performance. A sub-sample of 111 Southern Italian Small and Medium Enterprises whose entrepreneurs have publicly opposed the mafia extortion was initially selected. By adopting a matched-pair design, anti-mafia firms were subsequently matched against a sub-sample of neutral firms. Determinants of anti-mafia behavior were investigated by using a regression logistic model in order to regress the anti-mafia choice on a set of financial, demographic, governance, and control variables. Performance and fina…

The Italian Mafia. An Industry of Leisure

2013

Desistenza dal crimine, riflessività, servizio sociale: considerazioni su una ricerca

2019

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of desistance from crime by deviant young people in some Sicilian cities. In these paths, individual and relational reflexivity is central. This is an original study, which focuses on the importance of the role of social workers as actors capable of strengthening the socio-educational rehabilitation pathways of deviant young people. The author demonstrates how the presence of relational reflexivity in the intervention of social workers and social services contributes to (re)activating in young people an individual reflexivity (proactive, responsible, prosocial) capable of directing them towards objectives of personal growth and adult responsibility.

Mafia-type organizations in Italy: diffusion, impact on the private sector, research paths,

2013

The Transformation of Female Roles in Cosa Nostra: A Diachronic and Comparative Analysis

2012

The chapter examines the transformation of the roles of women in Italian organized crime groups. Starting from a comparative analysis of the way in which – over time – the different manifestations of female power and male domination in certain organized crime groups (Cosa Nostra and others) have changed, we seek to understand what female power is in these contexts and what are the circumstances which make it legitimate and visible, what are the different modalities in which it expresses itself over time, in different locations and criminal contexts. The studies of women’s roles in mafias have shown how, over time, these have changed, particularly in terms of their ‘visibility’. Over the las…

Women and transnational organized crime: the ambiguous case of the italian Mafias

2022

This chapter examines the transformation of the roles of women in Italian organized crime groups. Starting from a comparative analysis of the way in which – over time – the different manifestations of female power and male domination in certain organized crime groups (Cosa Nostra and others) have changed, we seek to understand what female power is in these contexts and what are the circumstances which make it legitimate and visible, what are the different modalities in which it expresses itself over time, in different locations and criminal contexts. The studies of women’s roles in mafias have shown how, over time, these have changed, particularly in terms of their ‘visibility’. Over the la…

Un racconto allo specchio. la costruzione del mito mafioso attraverso le sue immagini

2009

Using now the cultural models, now those of organizational and structural theories, the Cosa Nostra studies risk sometimes to achieve results spoiled by approximation and partiality. If we want to deepen the research on the impact that the media representation of the mafia produces within the criminal context or in the social construction of the phenomenon, it is essential to use tools able to frame the issue in its complexity. With this background, the paper reviews some relevant cases which clearly show how information, literature, cinematography help to give shape and strength to criminal organization: from the journalistic investigations on the "Provenzano case”, to the television seria…

Resistere alle mafie nella crisi della democrazia

2012

In a globalized world, the encounter between organized crime and 'official' economic system generates convergences of interests that arise on the boundary between legality and illegality. Globalization produces mobility and competition. To adapt to a constantly changing scene and avoid social control institutions, the new criminal systems have adopted a flexible network structure, whose methods and procedures make the boundary between what is lawful and what is not less visible, and hamper the control of legality. The degradation of democracy, that is linked to the spread of corrupt practices, lowers the "moral cost" for those people who are in the so-called gray areas, and lowers the thres…

Clientelismo e metodo mafioso: network Criminali e pubblica amministrazione in Sicilia

2011

Quale relazione lega clientelismo e mafia? Quali elementi accomunano crimine dei potenti e metodo mafioso? Come si strutturano i sistemi criminali nelle realtà locali? Il saggio presenta una selezione ragionata di studi sulle relazioni tra clientelismo e mafia (par. 1) e sulle reti che si configurano nell’interconnessione tra sistemi criminali e pubblica amministrazione (par. 2). Tali studi permettono di leggere tanto fenomeni storici, come i comitati d’affari che asservivano i poteri pubblici nella Palermo degli anni Cinquanta (par. 3), tanto fenomeni più recenti, come quelli che, dal 1991 in poi, rientrano nella fattispecie dei Comuni e degli enti locali commissariati per infiltrazioni ma…

Giovani e legalità in tempo di pandemia

2021

This volume focuses on subjects and data analysed from different perspectives in the light of the health emergency. An emergency which has prompted everyone not only to deal with medical, biological or statistical information (dynamics of contagions, increase in contagions, immune response, effectiveness of vaccines, etc.), but also with the processes of producing of norms, rules and regulations to be interpreted and assessed, as well as with the modification of the spaces of freedom of individuals and organisations.