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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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Intervista a Marcello Ravveduto: Mafia e storiografia. Premesse culturali e prospettive attuali
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2019 The historian Marcello Ravveduto, in the interview given to Diacronie. Studi di Storia contemporanea on 10 October 2019, presents his assessments on the mafia phenomenon by building, on the one hand a detailed historical phenomenology of the “mafia ...
Marcello RAVVEDUTO
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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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From Here to In\u3cem\u3eFinnerty\u3c/em\u3e: Tony Soprano and the American Way [PDF]
, 2011 As fellow critics have pointed out in a myriad of published studies on the series, The Sopranos challenges the traditional gangster genre formula and brings the mob closer to all of us: Tony and his gang inhabit a recognizable world of Starbucks ...
Carney, Terri
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The mafia psychology and the coexistence systems
International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Education, 2018 One of the main objectives of this paper is the analysis of the systems that allowed the coexistence of three most important, well-known and widespread Italian mafia organizations, on national and international territories, namely: Cosa Nostra ...
Antonino Giorgi +3 more
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Whistleblower or Troublemaker? How One Man Took on the Soviet Mafia [PDF]
The paper tells the story of a pensioner’s fight against a local mafia of Soviet party and government officials and farm managers in a remote rural locality in the 1950s. To Moscow, he was a whistleblower.
Harrison, Mark
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Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2018 In this article, we focus on the way in which the LULU (Locally Unwanted Land Use) movements against great infrastructures have framed the issues of corruption and organized crime in Italy, with particular reference to the mafia system, and the struggle ...
Gianni Piazza, Giuliana Sorci
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Yakuza Past, Present and Future: The Changing Face of Japan\u27s Organized Crime Syndicates [PDF]
, 2014 While Japanese crime syndicates are deeply entrenched in the history and culture of Japan, much of what is known in the Western world about the Yakuza is primarily the result of stereotyping generated by media-driven sensationalism and lowbudget motion ...
Higgins, Silke
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La mafia come metodo nell’Italia contemporanea - The mafia as method in the contemporary Italy
Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, 2023 This paper aims to analyze the contribution made by the historian Nicola Tranfaglia to the state of historical studies on mafia phenomena, paying particular attention to the publication of his La mafia come metodo also in relation to contemporary ...
Lorenzo Iacoviello
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On the historical and geographic origins of the Sicilian mafia [PDF]
This research attempts to explain the large differences in the early diffusion of the mafia across different areas of Sicily. We advance the hypothesis that, after the demise of Sicilian feudalism, the lack of publicly provided property-right protection ...
Buonanno, Paolo +3 more
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