Clicca qui per scaricare

Condividi
"Godfathers, dark glasses, and pasta": Discussing British perceptions of Italian Mafias
Titolo Rivista: SICUREZZA E SCIENZE SOCIALI 
Autori/Curatori: Felia Allum 
Anno di pubblicazione:  2013 Fascicolo: 3EN Lingua: Inglese 
Numero pagine:  18 P. 51-68 Dimensione file:  700 KB
DOI:  10.3280/SISS2013-003005EN
Il DOI è il codice a barre della proprietà intellettuale: per saperne di più:  clicca qui   qui 


This article seeks to discuss British perceptions of Italian Mafias, in par-ticular, those of the academic world, the press and the police. It does not enter into the debate about the definitions of organised crime and Italian Mafias, but draws out their perceptions in the UK. It would appear that the perceptions of Italian Mafias still remain the traditional ones, produced mainly by films, TV series and popular novels. This is a worrying sign because it means that it becomes difficult to see what Italian Mafias are really doing in Europe and the UK.


Keywords: Italian Mafias, British perceptions , Mafia, Italy, U.K.

  1. Falcone, G with M. Padovani (1993) Men of Honour, The Truth about the Mafia, London: Warner books.
  2. Allum, F (2012) ʻItalian Organised Crime in the UKʻ, Policing, 6 (4): 354–359.
  3. Allum, F (2013) ʻItalian Organised crime in the UK: continuing the debateʻ, Policing, 7 (2): 227-232.
  4. Banfield, E. C (1967) The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, New York: Free Press.
  5. Behan, T (1996) The Camorra, London: Routledge.
  6. Blok, A (1974) The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960: A study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneur, Oxford: Willey-Blackwell.
  7. Campana, P (2011) ʻEavesdropping on the Mob: the functional diversification of Mafia activities across territories’, European Journal of Criminology, May, vol. 8 no, 3 213-228.
  8. Campbell, L (2013) Organised Crime and the Law, A Comparative Analysis, London: Hart Publishing.
  9. Chubb, J (1982) Patronage, Power and Poverty in Southern Italy: A tale of Two Cities, Cambridge: CUP
  10. Del Porto, D (2009) ʻBlitz contro gli scissionisti, Montecarlo era il terminale del riciclaggioʻ, La Repubblica, Pagine di Napoli, (accessed 20/6/2013) Available at: http://napoli.repubblica.it/dettaglio/blitz-contro-gli-scissionisti-montecarlo-era-il-terminaledel-riciclaggio/1636163
  11. Dickie, J (2007) Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Hodder paperback.
  12. Duggan, C (1989) Fascism and The Mafia, Yale: Yale University Press.
  13. Enzensberger, H M (1990) Political Crumbs, London: Verso.
  14. European Commission (2011) Eurobarometer Special 371 Internal Security, DG Home Affairs, Brussels.
  15. Gambetta, D (1996) The Sicilian Mafia, The Business of Private Protection, Havard: Havard University Press.
  16. Gardham, D et al (2013) ʻBriton hunted as police crack IRA and mafia fraud schemeʻ, The Daily Telegraph, 6 March (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/duncan-gardham/accessed 6/3/13)
  17. Gerbner, G. et al (1980) ʻThe “Mainstreaming” of America: Violence Profile No. 11ʻ, Journal of Communication, Vol. 30, Issue 3, pp.10-29.
  18. Gratteri, N (2012) ʻCome Migliorare il Contrasto alla ʻNdranghetaʻ in Per un Contrasto Europeo al Crimine Organizzato e alle Mafie; La Risoluzione del Parlamento Europeo e lʻimpegno dellʻUnione Europea (edited by) S. Alfano e A.Varrica, Milano: FrancoAngeli.
  19. Hobbs, D (2013) Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK, Oxford: Clarendon Pres.
  20. Home Office (2009) Extending Our Reach: A Comprehensive Approach to Tackling Serious Organised Crime, London: TSO.
  21. Hill, P (2003) The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza, law and the State, Oxford: OUP. Italian Penal Code. (1 May 2013) Available at: http://www.studiolegaleargonauta.it/file/ilcodicepenaleitaliano. pdf.
  22. Jussim, L (1991) ʻSocial Perception and Social Reality: A Reflection-construction Modelʻ, Psychological Review, vol 98, n. 54-73.
  23. Levi, M (2004) ʻThe Making of the United Kingdomʻs Organised crime Control policies’, in Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns, and Control Policies in the EU and Beyond, ed by C. Fijnaut and L. Paoli, Amsterdam: Springer.
  24. Meyer, C. O and Miskimmon, A (2009) ʻPerceptions and Responses to Threats: Introductionʻ, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol 22, n. 4, dec, 626-628.
  25. Nicaso, A and Lamothe, L (2005) Angels, Mobsters and Nacro-terrorists, The Rising Menace of Global Criminal Empires, Ontario: Wiley.
  26. Pine, J (2012) The Art of Making Do in Naples, Minesota: Minesota University Press.
  27. Sciarrone, R and Storti, L (2014) ʻThe Territorial expansion of mafia-type organized crime. The Case of the Italian mafia in Germany, Crime, Law and Social Change, vol 61, issue 1.
  28. Schneider, J and P. Schneider (1976) Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily, New York: Academic Press.
  29. Still, A (1996) Excellent Cadavers: the Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, London: Vintage.
  30. Varese, F (2001) The Russian Mafia: Private Protection in a New Market Economy, Oxford: OUP.
  31. Varese, F (2011) Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime conquers New Territories, The Globalization of Organized Crime, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  32. Walston, J (1988) Mafia and Clientelism: Roads to Rome in post-war Calabria, Cambridge: CUP.
  33. Young, A and Allum, F (2012) ʻA Comparative study of British and German Press on ʻorganised crime’ (1999-2009), Crime, Law and Social Change, September, vol 58, issue 2, pp. 139-157.
  34. Zebrowitz, LA (1990) Social Perception, Buckingham, England: Open University Press



  1. Francesco Calderoni, Giulia Berlusconi, Lorella Garofalo, Luca Giommoni, Federica Sarno, The Italian mafias in the world: A systematic assessment of the mobility of criminal groups in European Journal of Criminology /2016 pp. 413, DOI: 10.1177/1477370815623570
  2. Alberto Testa, Anna Sergi, Corruption, Mafia Power and Italian Soccer pp. 83 (ISBN:9781315266770)
  3. Anna Sergi, Countering the Australian ‘ndrangheta: The criminalisation of mafia behaviour in Australia between national and comparative criminal law in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology /2017 pp. 321, DOI: 10.1177/0004865816652367

Felia Allum, in "SICUREZZA E SCIENZE SOCIALI" 3EN/2013, pp. 51-68, DOI:10.3280/SISS2013-003005EN

   

FrancoAngeli è membro della Publishers International Linking Association associazione indipendente e no profit per facilitare l'accesso degli studiosi ai contenuti digitali nelle pubblicazioni professionali e scientifiche