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Title
From Mafia to organised crime : a comparative analysis of policing models / Anna Sergi.
ISBN
9783319535685 (electronic book)
3319535684 (electronic book)
3319535676
9783319535678
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017].
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HV6025
Dewey Decimal Classification
364
Summary
This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups. Through interviews and interpretation of original documents, this study firstly demonstrates the interaction between institutional understanding of the criminal threats and historical events that have shaped these perceptions. Secondly, it combines analysis of policies and criminal law provisions to identify how policing models which combat mafia and organised crime activities are organized and constructed in each country within a comparative perspective. After presenting the similarities between the four differing policing models, Sergi pushes the comparison further by identifying both conceptual and procedural convergences and divergences across both the four models and within international frameworks. By looking at topics as varied as mafia mobility, money laundering, drug networks and gang violence, this book ultimately seeks to reconsider the conceptualizations of both mafia and organized crime from a socio-behavioural and cultural perspective.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1. Mafia and Organised Crime: the Spectrum and the Models
Chapter 2. Case Study 1
Italy & the Structure Model
Chapter 3. Case Study 2
United States of America & the Enterprise Model
Chapter 4. Case Study 3
Australia & the Visibility Model
Chapter 5. Case Study 4
United Kingdom & the Activity Model
Chapter 6. Convergences and Divergences across the Four Models
Chapter 7. National Models and International Frameworks
Conclusion. A Socio-Behavioural Approach in Policing the Mafia-Organised Crime Spectrum.
