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Forms of illegal Use of Land: The Cultivation of Cannabis in Sardinia
Journal Title: SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE 
Author/s: Antonietta Mazzette, Sara Spanu 
Year:  2015 Issue: 108 Language: Italian 
Pages:  19 Pg. 117-135 FullText PDF:  129 KB
DOI:  10.3280/SUR2015-108008
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The paper presents some findings of a wider research on the transformation of crime in Sardinia and it considers the cultivation of cannabis from a sociological standpoint. The aim is to reflect on the illegal use of vast rural areas, through the theoretical approaches of sociology of territory, both as regards the shift of increasing areas into places of informal and illegal economy, and as regards the transformation of individual and group behaviors related to this illegal practice.
Keywords: Cannabis, Territory, Crime, Sardinia, Illegal Use, Social Control.

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Antonietta Mazzette, Sara Spanu, Forms of illegal Use of Land: The Cultivation of Cannabis in Sardinia in "SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE" 108/2015, pp. 117-135, DOI:10.3280/SUR2015-108008

   

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