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3. La rilevanza indiretta della nozione di organizzazione criminale nella normativa derivata dell'UE. 3.1. Rinvio espresso alle norme definitoriedell…
2017
La ricerca analizza il livello di implementazione negli ordinamenti penali di alcuni Stati dell'UE della nozione normativa di organizzazione.
The economics of extortion: Theory and the case of the Sicilian Mafia
2023
This paper studies extortion of firms operating in legal sectors by a profit-maximizing criminal organization. We develop a simple taxation model under asymmetric information to find the Mafia optimal extortion as a function of firms’ observable characteristics, namely size and sector. We test the predictions of the model on a unique dataset on extortion in Sicily, the Italian region where the Sicilian Mafia, one of the most ancient criminal organizations, operates. In line with our theoretical model, our empirical findings show that extortion is strongly concave with respect to firm size and highly regressive. The percentage of profits appropriated by the Mafia ranges from 40% for small fi…
Las influencias históricas y circunstancias sociales y sociológicas en la creación de estructuras sociales informales de naturaleza criminal: estudio…
2018
Essential elements cementing every community are the factors: ontological, structural, fixed mechanisms of conduct including moral, religious, legal, or traditional tradition, or tradition, which is the carrier of continuity of this community. Lack of social stabilization, which in the old days was caused, among other things, by often changing rulers, the lack of justice that would equally affect all social groups, or the grossly unfair distribution of goods between the various social groups, led to the emergence of informal organizations, These often replaced the official law or administration, in the area inhabited by some community
Assassinio passionale
2007
Sulla rappresentazione letteraria dell’assassinio passionale About crime of passion’s literary representation, its constants and its changes
Migrazioni e questioni politiche
2020
Il saggio presenta e discute i risultati di una ricerca transnazionale condotta su 16 paesi europei sulla percezione dell'opinione pubblica del nesso transmigrazioni e criminalità. The essay presents and discusses the results of a transnational research conducted on 16 European countries on the public opinion's perception of the link between migration and crime.
Applying system dynamics modeling to foster a cause-and-effect perspective in dealing with behavioral distortions associated with a city's performanc…
2015
This paper aims to show how applying system dynamics methodology to performance management can provide a powerful modeling perspective enabling public sector organizations to prevent, detect, and counteract behavioral distortions associated with performance measurement. A dynamic performance management approach is able to support performance management system designers in outlining and implementing a consistent set of measures that can allow public sector decision-makers to pursue sustainable organizational learning and development. This perspective implies a major shift from a static to a dynamic picture of organizational processes and results. It means framing delays between causes and ef…
Violence and the Peasant Elite in Lower Satakunta (1550–1680)
2016
“The lengthy quarrels over inheritance hint that these people had fiery tempers”, wrote Mauno Jokipii in his pioneering article on the history of the Lavila family—one of the prominent families of freeholders in Lower Satakunta.1 In our study on the women from that same family, Virpi Nissila and I have encountered about 100 court cases from the 1620 to the 1650s, in which six women from two generations have been present. The most prominent of them is Anna Martensdotter who appeared in court 28 times in the four years for which we have the court minutes still intact. These records tell of her offensive behaviour: neighbours complaining about her physical violence, insults, appropriations, an…
The Mafia Psychology: The Study of the ‘Ndrangheta and the Cosa Nostra
2016
According to many explorative analyses, the more diffused Italian Mafias represent a real global threat. In order to better understand the dynamics of the organized crime as well as its destructive effects on the economic, environmental, and psychosocial spheres, the chapter aims to deepen the devastating impacts upon its victims. The common traits and the specific characteristic of the Sicilian Mafia and the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta are detected through the group analytic assumptions relating to Mafia Psychism. The contextualized concepts of blood ties, family roots, power, and territory make the Mafias’ organizational culture first of all an anthropological and a psychological identity. Ther…
PROTOCOL: Organised crime groups: A systematic review of individual‐level risk factors related to recruitment
2019
Using network community detection to investigate psychological and social features of individuals condemned for mafia crimes
2018
Objective: Only few studies have investigated social and personality characteristics of members of Italian organized criminal groups: Mafia, Camorra, ‘Ndrangheta, and Sacra Corona Unita. This study aimed to explore the most relevant social and clinical features of Mafia criminals and their psychopathic traits. Method: The Psychopathy Check List-Revised (PCL-R) and a socio-demographic questionnaire were administered to 30 condemned for Mafia crimes and imprisoned in the “Pagliarelli” district prison of Palermo (Italy). The results were investigated applying the methods of Network Theory. Results: The study identified two communities, which were statistically different in terms of history of …