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Understanding the Mafia. Session 2
Understanding the Mafia. Session 2. Women. Evolutions. The role of women. A fundamental, yet secondary role. “The woman never has, and never will be affiliated, but she has always had a fundamental role” (Suraci 9, Graziosi, Pieroni, Giannini 16). - goods exchanged for alliances and to end faidas, through marriages - passive role: - 1) guaranteeing husband’s reputation - must be a virgin before marriage and must not commit adultery - 2) raising the children, transmitting the values mafiosi - seeking vengeance for males, being submissive for females Let’s talk. Because the children get indoctrinated from a young age with what is just and what is wrong under the principles and values mafiosi, alienated from the civil society that surrounds them, to what extent are they responsible for their actions? When is it that these young individuals realize (if ever) that what they are doing is inhumane? Are these women always conscious of the role they are playing and are they aware of their options and ability to denounce or change life? What could be the main obstacles inhibiting the women and children from denouncing and changing life? What role can and should the State have in informing mafiosi on their rights, their options and guarantee them protection if they decide to denounce and collaborate with the law? An evolving role. - never be affiliated, but have taken more active roles - they have become the brains of the husbands’ and sons’ actions (Suraci 8, 18, Pieroni, Saviano 158, 163) - in parallel there is transgression of the “code of honor” stating that women cannot be assassinated (Saviano 160). -
Lecture 2: CORRUPTION & ORGANIZED CRIME Chiara Superti
Lecture 2: CORRUPTION & ORGANIZED CRIME Chiara Superti OUTLINE 1. Introduction 2. Two types of organized crime - New transnational crime groups - Old/traditional organized groups or Mafias - Relationship with the State - Use of corruption - Type of business - Relationship with their communities 3. How the traditional Mafia uses corruption: - Judicial corruption - Political corruption - Police corruption - Private sector corruption 4. Red Mafia vs Cosa Nostra: similarities. 5. Why is organized crime challenged under totalitarian regimes? 6. Why does it prosper during transition? - Lack of law enforcement - New wealth - New actors 7. The services of private protection 8. Wrap up Reading of reference and other sources for today’s lecture: Briquet, J. L. (2003). Organised crime, politics and the judiciary on post-war Europe. In F. Allum and R. Siebert (eds.), organised crime and the challenge to democracy. London: Routledge. 1 Gambetta, Diego. The Sicilian Mafia: the business of private protection. Harvard University Press, 1996. Gounev, Philip and Tihomir Bezlov, Examining the Links between Organised Crime and Corruption. Center for the Study of Democracy, European Commission, 2010. Gutauskas A., Juska A., Johnstone P., and Pozzuto R. (2004) Chang ing Typology of Organised Crime in a Post-Socialist Lithuania (the Late 1980s–Early 2000s). Global Crime, 6 (2). Paoli L. (1999) The Political Criminal Nexus in Italy. Trends in organized Crime, 5 (2). Paoli, L. (2003) Mafia brotherhoods: organised Crime, Italian Style, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Plywaczewsky E. (2004/2006) Organised crime in Poland: its development from real Socialism to present times. In Paoli, L. and Fijnaut, C. (eds.), organised Crime in europe. Dordrecht: Springer. -
Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Copyedited by: ES MANUSCRIPT CATEGORY: Article Review of Economic Studies (2020) 87, 537–581 doi:10.1093/restud/rdz009 © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Review of Economic Studies Limited. Advance access publication 25 February 2019 Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/87/2/537/5364272 by MIT Libraries user on 29 May 2020 DARON ACEMOGLU MIT GIUSEPPE DE FEO University of Leicester and GIACOMO DAVIDE DE LUCA University of York and LICOS, KU Leuven First version received January 2018; Editorial decision December 2018; Accepted February 2019 (Eds.) We document that the spread of the Mafia in Sicily at the end of the 19th century was in part caused by the rise of socialist Peasant Fasci organizations. In an environment with weak state presence, this socialist threat triggered landowners, estate managers, and local politicians to turn to the Mafia to resist and combat peasant demands. We show that the location of the Peasant Fasci is significantly affected by a severe drought in 1893, and using information on rainfall, we estimate the impact of the Peasant Fasci on the location of the Mafia in 1900. We provide extensive evidence that rainfall before and after this critical period has no effect on the spread of the Mafia or various economic and political outcomes. In the second part of the article, we use this source of variation in the strength of the Mafia in 1900 to estimate its medium-term and long-term effects. -
LA MAFIA PALERMITANA Fazioni, Risorse, Violenza (1943-1993)
EDIZIONI LA MAFIA PALERMITANA Fazioni, risorse, violenza (1943-1993) di Vittorio Coco Coco, Vittorio <1980-> La mafia palermitana / Vittorio Coco – Palermo : Centro di studi ed iniziative culturali Pio La Torre, 2010. (Collana studio e ricerca) 1. Mafia - Palermo - 1943-1993. 364.10609458231 CDD-21 SBN Pal0224465 CIP – Biblioteca centrale della Regione siciliana “Alberto Bombace” Comitato Scientifico: Prof. Guido Corso, Prof. Alessandra Dino e Prof. Salvatore Lupo. 5 Nota editoriale di Vito Lo Monaco, Presidente Centro Pio La Torre 7 Prefazione di Salvatore Lupo, storico 9 Introduzione 11 Il contesto La Piana dei Colli e lo sviluppo urbano di Palermo dal secondo dopoguerra Parte Prima Tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta. Al centro della ripresa postbellica 23 Mafia ed edilizia: il costruttore Francesco Vassallo 31 L’ascesa di Angelo La Barbera 39 Da una guerra all’altra Parte Seconda Tra gli anni Settanta e Ottanta. Ai margini dopo l’antimafia 45 La perdita della centralità 51 Al fianco dei corleonesi 55 Dal maxi-processo alla riconquista dell’autonomia 61 Indice dei nomi 65 Indice dei luoghi di Vito Lo Monaco La ricerca di Vittorio Coco, a seguito di un bando pubblico del Centro Studi Pio La Torre che ha impegnato parte del contributo finanziario della Regione Sicilia, fa parte di un insieme di studi in via di pubblicazione. Per un anno tra il 2008 e il 2009 sei giovani ricercatori, guidati volontariamente da rispettivi comitati scientifici e tutor di alto profilo, hanno lavorato con tanto profitto da convincere il Centro a proseguire la ricerca nel 2010. L’idea generale della ricerca riguarda l’esplorazione della complessità del fenomeno ma- fioso tramite l’osservazione della storia e del rapporto col territorio di “famiglie” le cui relazioni interne ed esterne circoscrivono la natura specifica dell’organizzazione mafiosa e il suo rapporto organico con le classi dirigenti. -
The Mafia Index. a Measure of the Presence of the Mafia Across Italian Provinces Francesco Calderoni
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by PubliCatt The Mafia Index. A measure of the presence of the mafia across Italian provinces Francesco Calderoni Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Transcrime, Milan, Italy In Töettel, Ursula and Heinz Büchler (eds.), Research Conferences on Organised Crime at the Bundeskriminalamt in Germany 2008-2010, Köln: Luchterhand, 2011, ISBN 9783472080664, p. 141-162. 1 The Mafia Index. A measure of the presence of the mafia across Italian provinces Introduction1 The presence of the mafias in Italy is an irrefutable fact. 2 Surprisingly, however, a relatively small number of studies and publications have attempted to measure the presence of mafias on the Italian territory. This is remarkable, because measurements are fundamental in the perspective of supporting the law enforcement activity against the mafias. Probably, better data and information sharing, and therefore better measurements, could effectively contribute to Italy’s efforts to prevent mafias or to enforce the law against them. The aim of this article is to partially fill this gap and present the Mafia Index (MI hereinafter), a composite index measuring the presence of mafias at the provincial level in Italy. The following section (Section 1) discusses the shortcomings of the existing measurements of mafias in Italy, reviewing the most recent attempts to create indexes of the presence of mafias and/or organised crime. The article then presents the methodology used to create the Mafia Index (Section 2). The MI is analysed and discussed in Section 3. Section 4 concludes. 1. Problems relating to the existing attempts to measure the presence of mafias in Italy Based on the foregoing brief review of existing attempts to measure the presence of mafia in Italy, this subsection analyses the current state of the art and identifies the problems with such research. -
Mafia Capitale: Corruzione E Regolazione Mafiosa Nel «Mondo Di Mezzo»
MAFIA CAPITALE Mafia Capitale: corruzione e regolazione mafiosa nel «mondo di mezzo» di Vittorio Martone 1. Premessa Dal dicembre 2014, con l’operazione «Mondo di mezzo» e l’ipotesi della Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia di Roma (da ora in poi Dda) circa l’esistenza di una mafia autoctona capitolina1, il dibattito in tema di nuo- ve mafie ha registrato un rinnovato vigore. La locuzione si riferisce sia alla mobilità delle organizzazioni storiche in aree non tradizionali, sia alla genesi di nuove organizzazioni – anche straniere – che presentano i tratti tipici delle mafie2. All’interno di questo dibattito, approfondendo il caso di Mafia Capitale (da ora in poi MC), vogliamo qui porre l’atten- zione sulle trasformazioni del concetto stesso di mafie allorquando ci si riferisce alle organizzazioni criminali operanti in aree di non tradizio- nale insediamento. Qui esse tendono infatti a esaltare il proprio profilo imprenditoriale, abbandonando i tratti violenti tipici della mafiosità o mutandone in qualche modo i confini semantici. L’interesse per i mer- cati legali stimola la promozione di relazioni di collusione e complicità all’interno dell’area grigia. Sono maggiormente coinvolti i settori sot- toposti a regolazione istituzionale, dove si possono ottenere posizioni monopolistiche e di accesso privilegiato alle risorse pubbliche3. In questi ambiti, come è stato mostrato, le mafie fanno largamente ricorso alla 1 Tribunale di Roma, Ordinanza di applicazione di misure di cautelari nei confronti di Mas- simo Carminati e altri, Roma 2014; Id., Ordinanza di applicazione di misure di cautelari nei confronti di Gerardo Addeo e altri, Roma 2015. 2 Su questi temi la letteratura sociologica è oramai vasta; tra gli altri, N. -
MAFIA: a Product of the Italian Peculiar Historical Process
Why Did the Mafia Emerge in Italy? An institutional answer. Silvia Console Battilana# November 2003 I am grateful to Professor Marzio Romani for helpful suggestions and for pointing me toward this subject. I’d also like to thank the following professors for their email responses: Luigino Bruni, Sandro Roventi, Stefano Zamagni, M.Centorrino and F.Ofria. # Stanford University, [email protected] 1 Introduction Why did the Mafia develop in Italy? This paper provides an answer by considering Mafia as an institution1 that arose in a unique cultural context. This context-a product of historical circumstances- included a system of widely held moral beliefs and values that were heavily influenced by the Church and were conducive to the development of Mafia. The first section explains the emergence of Mafia using the HCIA framework. Such an analysis contrasts with common stereotypes of Mafia as a purely criminal activity. The principal argument advanced is that the growth of Mafia was supported by Italian social and cultural retrograde conditions, most notably the practice of clientelism. The underlying system of social and cultural beliefs is a key element to every institution, as it contributes to regularities in behavior. In a realistic world of incomplete information, beliefs determine a given agent’s expectations about 1 This paper relies on the definition of institutions supplied by Grief (2003): “An institution is a system of man made, non-physical factors, that are exogenous to each individual whose behavior they influence. These factors jointly generate a regularity of behavior by enabling, guiding and motivating it.” 2 reactions by other agents and therefore influence the agent’s best response to the environment he faces. -
SESSION 2. WOMEN. EVOLUTIONS. an Evolving Role
SESSION 2. WOMEN. EVOLUTIONS. An evolving role. While it is true that a woman will never be accepted as being an affiliate of the mafia, with years, women have become ever so THE ROLE OF WOMEN. important within the cosca, and have taken on more active roles, to the point that they have become the brains of the husbands’ and sons’ actions A fundamental, yet secondary role. “The woman never has, and (Suraci 8, 18, Pieroni, Saviano 158, 163). never will be affiliated, but she has always had a fundamental role” (Suraci 9, Graziosi, Pieroni, Giannini 16). Angela Russo. An important component of cosa nostra, she got renamed “Nonna eroina”, heroine grandmother, as she played an important role in Let’s talk. Because the children get indoctrinated from a young age with narcotrafficking (Suraci 19). what is just and what is wrong under the principles and values mafiosi, alienated from the civil society that surrounds them, to what extent are Anna Mazza. She they responsible for their actions? When is it that these young individuals was an important realize (if ever) that what they are doing is inhumane? component of the camorra. When her Are these women always conscious of the role they are playing and are they husband Gennaro aware of their options and ability to denounce or change life? What could Moccia dies, she be the main obstacles inhibiting the women and children from denouncing takes over his clan and changing life? and gets renamed “vedova nera”, black What role can and should the State have in informing mafiosi on their widow. -
Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 Robin Pickering-Iazzi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, [email protected]
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty French, Italian and Comparative Literature Books Department 2019 Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 Robin Pickering-Iazzi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/freita_facbooks Part of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons, Italian Language and Literature Commons, and the Women's Studies Commons Recommended Citation Pickering-Iazzi, Robin, "Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018" (2019). French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Books. 2. https://dc.uwm.edu/freita_facbooks/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by UWM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Books by an authorized administrator of UWM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. DEAD SILENT: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018 Robin Pickering-Iazzi Robin Pickering-Iazzi is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies, published in Italian as Le geografie della mafia nella vita e nella letteratura dell’Italia contemporanea, and editor of the acclaimed volumes The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality and Mafia and Outlaw Stories in Italian Life and Literature. She is currently working on a book that examines representations of feminicide in Italian literature, film, and media. -
The Roots of the Organized Criminal Underworld in Campania
Sociology and Anthropology 1(2): 118-134, 2013 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010211 The Roots of the Organized Criminal Underworld in Campania Pasquale Peluso Department of Public Politics and Administration Sciences, “Guglielmo Marconi” University, Rome, 00144, Italy *Corresponding Author: [email protected] Copyright © 2013 Horizon Research Publishing All rights reserved. Abstract The Camorra is a closed sect that acts in the was born and how it has changed and developed over the shadows and does not collect and preserve documents that centuries, transforming from a rural Camorra to a can later be studied by scholars or researchers. It is hard to metropolitan one and finally to an entrepreneurial modern rebuild the history of the Camorra: the picture is fragmented, Camorra that uses different methods in order to manage its a mix of half-truths and legends. The aim of this article is to affairs threatening the nation. make a diachronic excursus in order to find out the origins of the Neapolitan Camorra, that has had a longer history than any of the other mafias, and to explain how this secret 2. Methodology organization has changed its main features from 1800 to the present and from the Bella Società Riformata to Nuova The research has suggested a detailed picture of the crime Camorra Organizzata. Finally the modern clans that fight to phenomenon and connected the study of a large number of keep the possession of their territory and operate like documents contrasting the Camorra and the careful financial holdings in order to improve their business assessment of sources about the topic. -
Romanzo Criminale PRESS
Press Overview Romanzo Criminale - Italian crime wave hits Sky Arts Nudity, violence, bad language - the Italian crime series Romanzo Criminale has them all. Director Stefano Sollima talks from Italy about his hugely successful fact-based drama that recounts the bloody rise of an Italian gang who defied the cops and the Mafia during the 1970s Italian TV is notorious for its endless chat shows, scantily dressed women and stripping gameshow contestants. However, the trashy reputation is about to take a knock with the arrival of Romanzo Criminale on Sky Arts . This is a sweeping, bone-crushing drama, inspired by real events during the chaotic, violent 1970s in Rome. Forget the twee staples of UK crime shows such as Lewis and Midsomer Murders . Romanzo Criminale is a crime drama con brio . It's based on the story of the Banda della Magliana , a vicious gang that set out to rule the criminal underworld of 1970s Rome. While Naples and Sicily were the fiefdoms of the Camorra and the Mafia, Rome's criminal network was a patchwork of small gangs, and the Banda set out to be top Rottweiler in the capital. Director Stefano Sollima aimed to push Italian TV's usual limits of violence and bad language in filming the story for Sky Italia, which is based on a novel by Roman judge Giancarlo De Cataldo and had already been made into a successful film. Murder, bombings, kidnapping and plots "I tried to do the same story but more aggressively and real, and this was new to our market," says Sollima by phone from Italy. -
“The Sicilian Mafia” Twenty Years After Publication by Diego Gambetta Doi: 10.2383/35869
Il Mulino - Rivisteweb Diego Gambetta ”The Sicilian Mafia”. Twenty Years After Publica- tion (doi: 10.2383/35869) Sociologica (ISSN 1971-8853) Fascicolo 2, maggio-agosto 2011 Ente di afferenza: () Copyright c by Societ`aeditrice il Mulino, Bologna. Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Per altre informazioni si veda https://www.rivisteweb.it Licenza d’uso L’articolo `emesso a disposizione dell’utente in licenza per uso esclusivamente privato e personale, senza scopo di lucro e senza fini direttamente o indirettamente commerciali. Salvo quanto espressamente previsto dalla licenza d’uso Rivisteweb, `efatto divieto di riprodurre, trasmettere, distribuire o altrimenti utilizzare l’articolo, per qualsiasi scopo o fine. Tutti i diritti sono riservati. Symposium / “Telling about the Mafia”: Research, Reflexivity, and Representation, edited by Marco Santoro “The Sicilian Mafia” Twenty Years After Publication by Diego Gambetta doi: 10.2383/35869 The Sicilian Mafia was originally written in English, and published by Harvard University in 1993 (the publisher Einaudi was faster and the book came out first in Italian translation, in late 1992). It has since been translated into German (1994), Spanish (2007) and Polish (2009). The time may be ripe for examining the impact the book has had so far, but first I would like to say a few words about the origins of this study. My interest in the mafia stems partly from my biography. Having been born and raised in the northern Italian city of Turin, and having spent most of my professional life in England, the Sicilian mafia was not just geographically distant, but as culturally alien to me as it is to a Scandinavian.