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This article proposes a movement between two sorts of dependency in the secretive bonds of violent men. The first forges an interdependent set of relations between mafia men, independent of the state; the second arises as a dependency of... more
With Nigerian organised crime groups operating in the heartland of the Sicilian mafia, Dr Anna Sergi examines these groups' activities and their relationship with Cosa Nostra. Key Points The role of Nigerian criminal groups in Sicily... more
Presentazione del libro del prof. Salvatore Lupo
Seminario del Dottorato in Studi Luinguistici, Letterari e Storici
Università di Salerno
(13 marzo 2019)
Seminario del Dottorato in Studi Luinguistici, Letterari e Storici
Università di Salerno
(13 marzo 2019)
Al Capone has been the subject of and inspiration for an endless range of books, TV series and movies, and has subsequently been framed as one of the most notorious criminals of all time. Considering the wide range of illegal activities... more
A Capo Milazzo la baia di sant’Antonio, con l’antica chiesetta, la lunga spiaggia e le scogliere a strapiombo offre un panorama mozzafiato sulle sette isole Eolie e sui tramonti del Tirreno. Chi guarda al paradiso di baia e promontorio... more
In 1967, the late President Lyndon B. Johnson commissioned a series of reports addressing crime and justice in America. One of these reports, the Task Force Report: Organized Crime addressed the nature, scope and approaches to organized... more
This book offers the first comprehensive study of recent, popular Italian television. Building on work in American television studies, audience and reception theory, and masculinity studies, Sympathetic Perpetrators and their Audiences on... more
The Report on Organized Crime, witten by Clifford Karchmer and Douglas Little, Special Agents with the Pennsylvania Crime Commission (1970)
Gambetta’s theoretical framework focuses on two important aspects directly relating to the birth and development of mafias, namely a demand for private protection and a supply of the same. In the Post-Mao era, China started its transition... more
Estate del 1992, mentre il Paese assiste scosso e arrabbiato allo scandalo di Tangentopoli, mentre gli arresti e gli avvisi di garanzia per corruzione decimano le istituzioni dello Stato, l’antistato alza violentemente il tiro. Con gli... more
This work takes you on a chronological journey through the different ways in which the mafia is represented and treated in Italian cinema. Far from offering a mythical and stereotyped image of this genre, the purpose is to observe the... more
The alien conspiracy theory of organized crime has a peculiar American history. Once accepted there, a version of it was exported to Europe with the acronym " LCN " and accepted by many agencies and authorities without apparent... more
黑手党产权经济学理论是盛行于西方的有组织犯罪理论。该理论着重研究从事犯罪保护和法外执行的犯罪集团,这对于中国大陆学者探讨新形式的犯罪具有重要价值。然而,黑手党理论的移植需结合中国现状,即:中国社会中关系与法的共存,使得中国的法外保护与腐败紧密相联。法外保护的提供者不仅仅局限于有组织犯罪集团,腐败官员已成为犯罪保护商品的主要供给者。犯罪组织通过关系网建立警(官)匪联系、获得犯罪保护;腐败官员通过关系网进行权力寻租、获取非法利益。事实上,腐败交易双方所形成的关系网成为促进犯罪交易... more
Civil forfeiture is playing an increasingly prominent role in the fight against organised crime. While this tool is attractive to law enforcement agencies, it does give rise to concerns under Art 6 of the ECHR. Such proceedings ought to... more
This article outlines a theoretical framework to assess organized crime activities across territories and their modus operandi. The framework is based on the distinction ‘governing’ versus ‘trading’ and is then applied to scrutinize Mafia... more
This paper reviews the English language academic literature on transnational organized crime with a special emphasis on publications from the years 2007–2012. It presents an overview of the areas of crime covered, the kinds of data... more
The renowned Italian television series La piovra is known as the first important televisual intervention on the Mafia, but its aesthetic and thematic contributions to contemporary programming are often forgotten in television scholarship.... more
"This paper presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of transnational organized crime which centers on the practical problems offenders face. The framework breaks down the elusive concept of transnational organized crime to... more
It is a small research about criminal mafia groups in the city of Catania.
The fonts are: DIA and DNA.
ATTENTION: It is only to personal use and not intended to be exhaustive
The fonts are: DIA and DNA.
ATTENTION: It is only to personal use and not intended to be exhaustive
From 2008 Sicily's president was Raffaele Lombardo, leader of the Movimento per le Autonomie (MpA), a party founded by politicians who were already well established in the city of Catania and its province. In the summer of 2012 Lombardo's... more
Purpose of this succint work is to shed some light on the historical events and implications behind what presented in The Traitor (Il traditore, 2019), the most recent Marco Bellocchio biographical crime drama film focused on the life of... more
In this project I have studied one of the most important summits of the last 100 years, The Havana conference in 1946. It may not have been a meeting of great world leaders such as Potsdam or Yalta, but the effect it had on the modern... more
The conference theme of “MAFIAs”—the first on the subject by this academic research institute—intends to cover a broad variety of manifestations of organized crime throughout the world and over time. This scholarly event seeks a... more
Una selezione di testi, saggi, documenti e articoli relativi alla scomparsa del giornalista Mauro De Mauro
How might globalization impact the structure of organized crime groups and/or mafia’s?
E’ tutt’altro che facile condensare in un breve testo una riflessione sul pregiudizio legato alla comunità italoamericana, pregiudizio alimentato o certamente spettacolarizzato dal mezzo cinematografico. L’obiettivo di questo scrittonon è... more
In 1993, Palermo, Italy, mayor Leoluca Orlando took charge of city services that were on the verge of collapse. Garbage and trash lined the streets of the city. Natural gas for cooking and heating was available only intermittently, and... more
Chiara Caprì affronta in “Lanterna Nostra” il tema ancora poco battuto, ma sempre più fortemente attuale, della presenza e delle variegate attività della mafia cinese in Italia. Dalla nascita delle società segrete cinesi del 1600 ad ora,... more
Along the lines of the criminal-terrorist nexus, the essay portrays the difficulties criminal organizations face in developing into terrorist organizations. Commencing with a brief review of the field's most relevant research, the essay... more
This paper reviews experimental methods for the study of the responses of people to violence in digital media, and in particular considers the issues of internal validity and ecological validity or generalisability of results to events in... more
Cosa Nostra es una oscura sociedad secreta con sus ritos, mitos y leyendas de tradición oral, que lleva décadas influyendo en la vida política, económica y social de Italia y de medio planeta. Este libro desvela las siniestras prácticas... more
L’arte cinematografica come arte delle immagini in movimento si è sempre rivelata estremamente funzionale alla rappresentazione della violenza forse perché unisce la capacità dell’immagine di essere di per sé violenta in quanto... more