Cosa Nostra et repentis

Arlacchi, Pino; Brodeur, Jean‐Paul

doi:10.3917/autre.brode.2005.01.0174

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“…Given the importance of violence and co-offending for recruitment into the mafias (Savona et al, 2017), we grouped all “murder,” “robbery,” and “assault and violent” offenses in order to compute the number of violent offenses prior to recruitment. We decided to focus on the impact of engaging in violence on the recruitment age because violence is a prominent feature of mafia activities (Arlacchi, 1994; Blok, 1975; Gambetta, 2009), and it is especially important in the context of group crime since it is facilitated by the presence of co-offenders (Conway & McCord, 2002; Lantz, 2020; McGloin & Piquero, 2009). Moreover, recent research on gangs has analyzed the variation of violence among gang members in order to understand the different reasons for joining a gang (Wu et al, 2022).…”

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Criminal Careers Prior to Recruitment into Italian Organized Crime

Meneghini

Campedelli

Calderoni

et al. 2021

Crime & Delinquency

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Despite growing evidence about heterogeneous pathways leading individuals into organized crime, there is limited knowledge about the differences in the criminal career between individuals who entered criminal organizations in their youth and those who joined at an older age. This study assesses the differences between early and late recruits in the Italian mafias through logistic regressions considering several criminal career parameters computed on the period prior to recruitment. Results show that recruitment in the mafias is far from a homogenous process. Early recruits report an early criminal onset, lower educational attainment, more serious offenses within a shorter time-span, and more frequent violent co-offending; late recruits show a later onset, more prolific and versatile—but less serious—offending.

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