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The Fascist anti-mafia operation in Campania, 1926-1927
Modern Italy, 2017The anti-mafia operation undertaken in Sicily by the fledgling Fascist government had a powerful symbolic meaning in the construction of the ‘new state’. As a result, it left behind a wealth of sources: from the diaries of the prefect Cesare Mori and Alfredo Cucco, the Fascist Party’s representative in Sicily, to the many trials against ‘criminal ...
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Social change and anti-mafia movements: the ‘Addiopizzo’ variable
Modern Italy, 2019This article presents the results of a piece of research into extortion in the city of Palermo between 2004 and 2015. Highlighting the importance of the territorial context among the factors that explain the mafia phenomenon, the study draws on two different georeferencing databases: the first relating to the distribution of extortion across the ...
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Anti-mafia policies and public goods in Italy
Public ChoiceThis paper aims to evaluate the impact of a policy that targets criminal infiltration in local governments on the provision of local public goods in Italian municipalities. Building on the theoretical framework proposed by Dal Bò (American Political Science Review 100:41–53, 2006), we use a sufficient statistic approach to describe the dynamic ...
Fontana, Stefania, d'Agostino, Giorgio
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Fifty Years of Mafia Corruption and Anti-mafia Reform
Current Anthropology, 2018Since the formation of the Mafia as a criminal organization in late nineteenth-century Sicily, anti-mafia reformers have attacked mafia corruption.
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The Social Anti-Mafia in Western Sicily: An Experiment in Visual Ethnography
Visual Anthropology, 2020Frustrated by the constraints imposed on visual ethnography by any one film, Toni de Bromhead has been filming around the subject of the Sicilian mafia for a quarter-century, building up a body of ...
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Anti-Mafia Confiscation Against Corruption: The New Frontier of Human Rights
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019The Italian lawmakers have recently extended the anti-Mafia non conviction based confiscation to the persons suspected of belonging to a criminal association aimed to corruption or to the commission of various crimes against public administration. This provision, although apparently in line with the tendency increasingly widespread on a supranational ...
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Anti-mafia enterprise: Italian strategies to counter violent economies
2020This chapter contributes to building a diverse, non-capitalocentric economic vocabulary by making visible concrete entrepreneurial practices that are involved in fighting criminal economies. Although they do not fit into the dominant representation of the ‘Economy’, that is, as including all those ‘productive’ activities that result in waged ...
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Reorganizing crime: mafia and anti-mafia in post-Soviet Georgia
Central Asian Survey, 2014Thieves-in-law (Russian, vory-v-zakone; Georgian, k'anonieri kurdebi) are professional criminal leaders invested in practising and perpetuating mafia activities according to a code known as ‘the un...
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Organized Crime and Banks: Assessing the Effects of Anti-Mafia Police Actions on Lending
SSRN Electronic JournalThis study examines how dismantling Mafia-connected firms affects banks' lending practices. Using a unique dataset of 667 such firms and loan-level data from the European Central Bank, our analysis shows that anti-Mafia operations precede an increase in bank loans to businesses that operate in areas that are directly affected by these actions ...
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Anti-Mafia Police Actions, Criminal Firms, and Peer Firm Tax Avoidance
Journal of Accounting Research, 2023Antonio Parbonetti
exaly