Strumenti di lotta antimafiosa in Italia e in Tunisia
This article aims to speak sicilian instruments to combat anti-mafia in relation to "Le parole sono pietre" written by Carlo Levi and other instruments to combat anti-mafia in relation to the Tunisian Revolution of 2011.
Nabil Zaher
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Alle origini del fenomeno mafioso: il procuratore Pietro Calà Ulloa scrive da Trapani...
Pietro Calà Ulloa (1801-1879), procuratore della Gran Corte criminale di Trapani, è noto agli studiosi perché una sua relazione del 1838 viene considerata uno dei primi documenti in cui si dà una descrizione di fenomeni assimilabili al fenomeno mafioso ...
Umberto Santino
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Organized Crime and Electoral Outcomes in Sicily [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationship between mafia and politics by focusing on the market for votes. It exploits the fact that in the early 1990s the Italian party system collapsed, new parties emerged and mafia families had to look for new political
Buonanno, Paolo +2 more
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Identità e omofobia in Cosa Nostra: un contributo gruppoanalitico soggettuale [PDF]
contribution proposes some reflections on identity, sexuality and homophobia in Mafia contexts. The studies on Mafia psychology have allowed so far to highlight how weak is the identity of people belonging to Mafia criminal organizations and the ...
Cecilia Giordano, Maria Di Blasi
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On ‘Organized Crime’ in the illicit antiquities trade: moving beyond the definitional debate [PDF]
The extent to which ‘organized crime’ is involved in illicit antiquities trafficking is unknown and frequently debated. This paper explores the significance and scale of the illicit antiquities trade as a unique transnational criminal phenomenon that is ...
AV Orlova +24 more
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A tale of reverse deviance: non-compliant spatial practices in the land of Gomorrah [PDF]
Racketeering local activities, though less relevant in terms of financial turnover, still represents a distinctive feature of mafia-like organisations for it provides them with striking social power.
Trifuoggi, Mario
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Subtitling the Mafia and the Anti-Mafia from Italian into English: An Analysis of Cultural Transfer
Besides big Hollywood productions, like The Godfather trilogy, and video-on-demand productions, like The Sopranos, both filmed in English, new popular Italian productions, based on the linguistic and cultural representation of the Mafia and the Anti ...
Gabriele Uzzo
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Italian Public Policy Against the Mafia [PDF]
The Mafia phenomenon in Italy starting the 19th century has managed to penetrate into many spheres of life in Italian society, such as politics, economics, culture and even sports.
Maria Shibkova, Daria Nedelnichenko
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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The market for protection and the origin of the state [PDF]
We examine a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-profit entrepreneurs (kings, kleptocrats, or mafia dons).
Konrad, Kai A., Skaperdas, Stergios
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