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Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention Stefano Caneppele • Francesco Calderoni Editors Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention Essays in Honor of Ernesto U. Savona 2123 Editors Stefano Caneppele Francesco Calderoni TRANSCRIME TRANSCRIME Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan Milano Italy Italy ISBN 978-3-319-01838-6 ISBN 978-3-319-01839-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01839-3 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013951531 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. 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Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Note from the Publisher On a crisp spring day in the hills of Tuscany, in April 2003, I first encountered the dynamic force of nature that is Professor Ernesto Savona. I was to meet him at a seminar on crime prevention where he was speaking, a seminar held at a castle-like venue a ten minute cab ride from the old town of Siena. A fitting setting for this first meeting in a number of ways, although a steady drizzle obscured the view from the taxi from the moment we left the Siena train station. Without doubt a bright Italian sun would have been more reflective of Ernesto’s character and Sicilian heritage. Not long before, the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research had come to fall under my responsibility, and at that time the journal needed some fixing. For one thing, we had a big gaping vacancy where an Editor-in-Chief was supposed to be, and the editorial board had recently thinned out a little as well. Needless to say: not a lot of papers were getting accepted under these circumstances. Because this was, and is, a criminology journal that focuses on Europe and on criminal policy and crime prevention in Europe, I thought: why not start by reaching out to the president of the newly established European Society for Criminology, and see what kind of advice he can offer? That president was Ernesto Savona, and I emailed him. That’s how things started, with a cold call. The response was warm. Unsurprising probably, to those that know Ernesto. Yes, he wrote to me, he would be happy to speak with me during my upcoming trip to Italy. Oh, and by the way: if I wanted, then apart from meeting with him in Siena, I could also visit the Transcrime office in Milan and meet with his staff there. They were all involved in several research projects and it might be interesting for me to touch base with them. As far as the logistics were concerned, it became clear that Ernesto himself was scheduled to be in eight different places in three days or something along these lines, but if I could come from Florence (where I was going to be) to Siena on April 10, then he would have an hour or so in between his talk and the conference dinner to meet with me. The energy, flexibility and the ability to connect people in the field of criminology that are trademarks of the Savona-style had manifested themselves immediately. All that, as well as the fact that Ernesto is a warm-blooded Sicilian with a work-ethic that would put every Calvinist to shame. So: a castle in Siena. Or was it a former monastery? I was asked to wait for Professor Savona in a dimly lit hallway that looked ancient and straight out of The v vi Note from the Publisher Name of The Rose (1986). There was someone else waiting there with me- a girl from Rome who had gotten out of another taxi at the same time I arrived, holding a giant box with what she explained was a surprise birthday cake for her father, who would be celebrating a milestone birthday at the castle, and during the seminar, that evening. Ernesto had finished his talk and stepped out for our meeting. He was helpful and straightforward and full of ideas, and after about half an hour, I decided that now would be a good time to ask him if he didn’t think that in fact he himself was the Editor-in-Chief that we were looking for, for the European Journal on Criminal Police and Research. By the end of our meeting, he had both accepted, and invited me to his birthday party. By June of that same year, Ernesto had assembled an editorial board of top crim- inologists from every corner of Europe (including from the corners that had recently joined, or were in the process of joining the EU, which was always important to him) and was in full-on business mode, brainstorming about strategy and special issues, and grabbing (that is the word that comes to mind here. But it was a highly charming kind of grabbing) researchers at receptions and events left, right and center, convincing them to submit their work to the journal. It has been a great pleasure to work with Ernesto over the course of the past ten years. Both on the journal and on a great number of book projects, some by Ernesto himself, others written by various researchers at his institute. It has been great to see the journal flourish, to see it grow, get read and get cited. Traditions were established in the process. There were the annual editorial board meetings, held during the annual meeting of the European Society for Criminology. Hard work and fun times in places like Amsterdam, Tuebingen, Cracow, Ljubljana. His board was a connected board: rather than just attaching their name to the journal, board members were actively soliciting articles, reviewing, coming up with ideas for special issues, guest-editing these special issues themselves. Ernesto’s contagious enthusiasm just made people volunteer to do these things. It is great to see how many of these usual annual board dinner attendees have contributed a chapter to this Volume. There were also the brainstorming sessions around the big table in the meeting room at Transcrime Milan, a framed photo of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino on the wall behind us. Ernesto, great host, always made sure that there was a lunch or dinner plan involving some of Italy’s delights, although he himself can get so into the flow of the work and the writing that at times I have suspected that if it were just him alone, he might as well not have the interruption of the meal. Quite unusual for un italiano vero. Just as hard to believe Ernesto Savona’s stated age was at his birthday in April 2003, it is to now visualize him “retiring”. Or at least: to imagine him working a little less hard. Because the words “Ernesto Savona” and “retirement,” somehow they just don’t go together. Therefore, this book is in no way a goodbye. We expect to stay in touch with Ernesto, and to have all kinds of projects cooking and working dinners with him going forward, if not in the Tuscan country-side then maybe (and finally!) here in New York ... So, this book is a collection to honor the work and research of Note from the Publisher vii Ernesto Savona, someone who helped shape the field of criminology in Europe, and who we hope will find ways to continue to do so in years to come. Executive Editor Social and Behavioral Sciences Welmoed Spahr Springer New York October, 2013 References Eichinger, B., Cristaldi F., Mnouchkine A., Schaefers B., and Weigel, H. (Producers) & Annaud, Jean-Jacques (Director). (1986). The Name of the Rose [Motion Picture]. Germany: Constantin Film. Adapted from The Name of the Rose [Book] by Umberto Eco. United States: Harcourt, 1983. Foreword A glance at the contents of this book shows the vast scope of Ernesto Savona’s criminological interests. It also shows that in pursuing his interests he has engaged with a wide range of eminent scholars from many countries and from many of Criminology’s sub-disciplines.

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