Overview
- Examines policing models for countering mafia and organised criminal activity
- Assesses the benefits and problems with approaches in the UK, US, Australia and Italy
- Compares the efficacy of these countries' laws and institutions which tackle local organised crime
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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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.
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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anna Sergi holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex, UK, an LL.M. in Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology from King’s College, London, UK, and a Specialist Law Degree from the University of Bologna, Italy. She is now a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Essex.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Mafia to Organised Crime
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Analysis of Policing Models
Authors: Anna Sergi
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53568-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53567-8Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85185-3Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53568-5Published: 19 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 315
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organized Crime, Transnational Crime, Crime and Society, Criminal Behavior, Financial Crime