Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses

Woodiwiss, Michael

doi:10.1007/s12117-015-9247-y

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“…Italian mafias in North America, Italian-American mafias, have filled popular culture and ignited research interest as early as the 1950s. Following policy interest since the Kefauver Committee between 1949 and 1951, the national resonance of the "Mafia"at times intended as a secret society at times as the result of entrepreneurial Italiannesshas kept growing in the US (Albanese 1996;Woodiwiss 2015). Following the Committee, the testimony of Joe Valachi in 1963 proved essential to enriching knowledge on the structure of Sicilian/Italian groups in the US.…”

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“…The legacy of those years between 1960 and1980, in which "the Mafia" became America's number one crime problem, is in the enduring policing paradigms against traditional organized crime in North America (Woodiwiss 2015). In fact, policies and discourses from the U.S. have significantly shaped concepts and strategies in other countries of the West, including Canada (Beare 1996).…”

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Mafia Borderland: Narratives, Traits, and Expectations of Italian-American Mafias in Ontario and the Niagara Region

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2022

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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This paper will investigate narratives, traits, and expectations of Italian-American mafias in North America. The specific case study is the area of Niagara, at the border between New York State, USA and Ontario, Canada. In this context, the artricle will mainly explore narratives and traits of so-called "mafia" families in the city of Hamilton, and their apparent connections with other "mafia" groups on the other side of the borderland, in Buffalo and in Toronto.Through qualitative design adapted from grounded theory methodology with mixed data, including news stories, investigative files and interviews, this article shows how mafias in the borderland of Niagara are conceptualised as hybrid groups, employing different identity "flags". Mafias appear isomorphic since they imitate each other's structures and (try to) obey traditional mafia rules, to adapt and survive. In line with GT methodology, this paper finally explores an emerging theoretical category, that of the mafia borderland. As a space and identity, mafia borderland helps to sketch traits and expectations of mafia groups in border areas.

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Mafia Borderland: Narratives, Traits, and Expectations of Italian-American Mafias in Ontario and the Niagara Region

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2022

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Case Study 2: United States of America and the Enterprise Model

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2017

From Mafia to Organised Crime

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Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands

Eski,

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2023

Trends Organ Crim

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This article will explore how the current narratives (and corresponding changes) in Dutch organised crime policing relate to ethnic profiling of minorities in the Netherlands. It will do so by developing a theoretically informed narrative understanding of what we would like to conceptualise as ethnic profiling of organised crime (in the Netherlands), digging deeper into the connection between the role of ethnicity in organised crime studies inasmuch as it relates to the history of the mafia concept and, even further, lingering colonialism in law-and-order approaches. By focusing on (assumed) socio-historical connections between Italy, mafia and organised crime and on the social construction of Italian mafia as organised crime, based on narrative criminology, this article discursively and interpretatively understands the dominant and hidden Dutch narratives on (policing) organised crime. The discovered narratives will be critically discussed in light of the juxtaposition between mafias and ethnic organised crime and post-colonial implications.

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Combatting and analysing organized crime: the view from witnesses

Cited by 3 publications

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Mafia Borderland: Narratives, Traits, and Expectations of Italian-American Mafias in Ontario and the Niagara Region

Mafia Borderland: Narratives, Traits, and Expectations of Italian-American Mafias in Ontario and the Niagara Region

Case Study 2: United States of America and the Enterprise Model

Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands

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