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Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2018 This article deals with the role of the Italian Mafia Organizations in illicit firearms trafficking. The author offers an overview of several criminal investigations, especially involving ’ndrangheta and camorra affiliates, in illicit firearms ...
Salvatore Dolce
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 2026.Some parasitic birds may destroy unsuitable host nests through “Farming behavior” to induce re‐nesting, thereby creating new opportunities for parasitism. Despite its potential significance, this behavior has been documented in only a few brood‐parasitic species.
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Altruism and sacrifice : mafia free gift giving in south Italy [PDF]
, 2014 As a social phenomenon that torments modern states, mafia receives considerable political and legal attention. The term mafia itself is often directly related to criminality and violence.
Baldessarro G. +29 more
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Situated in the manufacturing and construction industries of Durban, South Africa, this paper presents an ethnographic investigation into non‐unionised labour activism emergent from so‐called “organised crime” linked to the patronage politics of the African National Congress. In doing so, this paper traces a twin process of post‐colonial class
Nicholas Abrams
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Internationalizing studies on mafia journalism. Why including them within journalism studies
Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2019 Organized crime and mafia have been studying by methods that are increasingly rigorous. Within the subfield of mafia journalism, a more solid approach appears to be less evident, despite many contributions on the subject. This article argues the need for
Sergio Splendore
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Understanding Organized Crime Networks: Evidence Based on Federal Bureau of Narcotics Secret Files on American Mafia [PDF]
Using unique data on criminal profiles of 800 US Mafia members active in the 50s and 60s and on their connections within the Cosa Nostra network we analyze how the geometry of criminal ties between mobsters depends on family ties, community roots and ...
Eleonora Patacchini +1 more
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Countering the Australian 'ndrangheta: The criminalisation of mafia behaviour in Australia between national and comparative criminal law [PDF]
, 2017 Mafia-type criminal groups belonging to, or originated from, the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta from Southern Italy, have been object of recent academic research and media attention in Australia.
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From Wild West to the Godfather: Enforcement Market Structure [PDF]
Weak states enable private enforcement but it does not always fade away in the presence of strong states. We develop a general equilibrium model of the market organization of enforcers (self-enforcers, competitive specialized enforcers or monopoly) who ...
James E. Anderson, Oriana Bandiera
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It’s Not Just About the Mafia! Conceptualizing Business–Society Relations of Organized Violence
, 2020 While there is some scholarship in management and organization studies on forms of organized violence, it has rarely focused on the role of organized violence within wider business-society and gove...
S. Böhm, S. Pascucci
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L’utopia palermitana: i gesuiti nella «primavera» dell’antimafia
Laboratoire Italien, 2019 Between 1979 and 1993, the history of Sicily and Italy was marked by a season of systematic violence produced by Cosa nostra against the men of the institutions and civil society most exposed in the fight against the mafia.
Diego Gavini
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