Journal title STUDI ECONOMICI
Author/s Alfredo Del Monte
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2016/118-119-120
Language Italian Pages 41 P. 271-311 File size 402 KB
DOI 10.3280/STE2016-118016
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The paper shows that it is possible to distinguish a period from 1950 to early ’70 in which organized crime consolidated in few Southern Italy’s areas (West Sicily, Naples area and Reggio Calabria area), and a period from half ’70 that saw the territorial expansion of organized crime in other areas. The causes of this diffusion were: the development of new illegal markets, as cigarettes smuggling and drugs trafficks, mandatory residence of mafiosi in areas where organized crime was not present, a low deterrence activity and underestimation from public opinion of the gravity of criminal crime, strong political connections. Only in ’90 the deterrence increased quite lot and at least in the Sicilian mafia case efforts have been partially successful. The paper shows also that most of the areas of the diffusion of criminal organization were the wealthy one. In Southern Italy three region Abruzzi, Molise and Sardegna, that were poor regions, have not seen the birth of organized crime. The paper shows that these three regions have also a statistically significant rate of unemployment lower that other South regions.
Keywords: Organized crime, development, Southern Italy
Jel codes: K14, K42, O17
Alfredo Del Monte, Le cause della differente diffusione della criminalità organizzata nel Mezzogiorno in "STUDI ECONOMICI " 118-119-120/2016, pp 271-311, DOI: 10.3280/STE2016-118016