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Geographical distribution of crime in Italian provinces: a spatial econometric analysis
2009
For a long time social sciences scholars from different fields have devoted their attention to identifying the causes leading to commit criminal offences and recently lots of studies have included the analysis of spatial effects. Respect to the Italian crime phenomenon some stylized facts exist: high spatial and time variability and presence of “organised crime” (e.g. Mafia and Camorra) deep-seated in some local territorial areas. Using explanatory spatial data analysis, the paper firstly explores the spatial structure and distribution of four different typologies of crimes (murders, thefts, frauds, and squeezes) in Italian provinces in two years, 1999 and 2003. ESDA allows us to detect som…
A recent analysis of Mafia assets
2008
This paper aims to analyze the illegal maket regulated by the Mafian'law. In particular,two aspects and analyesd using recent data: money laundering and confiscation of assets.