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Dietz, Gudrun. "Mythos der Mafia im Spiegel intermedialer Präsenz /." Göttingen : V & R Unipress, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3025525&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Paoli, Letizia. "Mafia brotherhoods : organized crime, Italian style /." Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0612/2002009518-d.html.

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Diss.--Univ., 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-274) and indexes. Mafia associations and ruling bodies -- Status and fraternization contracts -- Secrecy and violence -- Multiplicity of goals and functions -- Mafia, state, and society.
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Ångman, Malin. "COSA NOSTRAE UNA GOCCIA NEL MARE:GIUSEPPE IMPASTATO." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Italienska, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-3236.

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Taglienti, Maria. "La Sicile, la mafia et au-delà de la mafia : Parcours littéraires." Thesis, Lille 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LIL30024.

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Cette étude concerne l'histoire de la littérature de mafia sicilienne et analyse le rapport existant entre mafia et littérature, dans le but de rendre compte de la façon dont la mafia a été représentée dans les diverses oeuvres narratives, avec une attention toute particulière portée à la production de Leonardo Sciascia. En commençant d'abord par une brève introduction historique, afin de restituer le contexte général dans lequel ce phénomène est né, puis en faisant un compte-rendu critique de l'histoire de la littérature de mafia, selon une progression chronologique, en partant de la naissance de la mafia, attestée autour de l'époque de l'Unité italienne, jusqu'aux années 1990. L'objectif que nous nous sommes fixés est de voir comment, d'un discours de négation de la mafia à une apologie manifeste ou cachée, on est arrivé à une dénonciation ouverte, et comment cette dénonciation est passée de la page littéraire à la dénonciation civile
This study concerns the literature relates to Sicilian mafia and provides an analysis of the link between mafia and literature, in order to account for the different ways mafia has been depicted in diverse narrative works, and specially in Leonardo Sciascia's literary output. We will begin with a brief historical introduction so as to convey the general background in which this phenomenon took place. Then we will give a critical account for the history of mafia literature, chronologically progressing from the advent of mafia, which was attested in the days of Italian Unity up to the years 1990. We aim to see how, from a discourse which denies the existence of mafia to an apology for it, being either obvious or hidden, we have come to a clear denunciation of mafia, and how this denunciations has proceeded from literature to civil life
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SARNO, FEDERICA. "IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF MAFIA MOBILITY: THE PRESENCE OF THE ITALIAN MAFIAS IN EUROPE." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6118.

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La ricerca sull'espansione territoriale delle mafie italiane si è spesso limitata all'analisi di una singola organizzazione o di un solo paese. I pochi studi con una prospettiva più ampia non esaminano in dettaglio come organizzazioni mafiose diverse operano in paesi diversi. Per colmare tale vuoto conoscitivo, questo studio analizza la presenza di Cosa Nostra, Camorra e 'Ndrangheta in Europa, con l'obiettivo di individuare modelli di espansione mafiosa. Lo studio combina varie fonti di informazione e diversi livelli di analisi. Dapprima, utilizza rapporti ufficiali per mappare la presenza delle mafie italiane in Europa ed identificarne le principali caratteristiche. Successivamente, approfondisce tre casi di studio paese e, sulla base di interviste con esperti, analizza come le diverse organizzazioni operano nei diversi paesi. I risultati mostrano che i fattori legati al territorio e al tipo di attività prevalgono sulle caratteristiche dell'organizzazione nel definire i modelli di espansione mafiosa. Le mafie italiane si concentrano in alcuni paesi Europei e in determinate aree all'interno dello stesso paese. Il traffico di droga è la caratteristica più ricorrente della loro presenza in Europa. La 'Ndrangheta è l'unica organizzazione ad aver riprodotto le proprie strutture all'estero, sebbene ciò non avvenga in tutti i paesi Europei in cui è presente.
Research on the spatial mobility of Italian mafias has frequently adopted a narrow approach, focusing on only one type of mafia or a single country. The few studies with a broader perspective do not examine in detail how different mafias operate across different countries. This study addresses these gaps by providing a first comprehensive analysis of the presence of Cosa Nostra, the Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta across Europe, with the aim of identifying patterns of mafia mobility. The study combines different data sources and different levels of analysis. Drawing from official reports, it firstly maps the spread of the Italian mafias in Europe and identifies the main characteristics of their presence abroad. Secondly, it focuses on three country case studies and, based on expert interviews, compares how different mafias operate across different countries. The results show that country-related and activity-related characteristics prevail over organizational ones in determining patterns of mafia mobility. Italian mafias concentrate in a few European countries and in specific areas within a country. Drug trafficking is the most recurrent feature of their presence abroad. The 'Ndrangheta is the only mafia which has a structured presence in Europe, although it does not reproduce its structures in all foreign countries.
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Müllerová, Aneta. "Fenomén italské mafie a možnosti její likvidace." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124619.

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My thesis 'The Phenomenon of Italian Mafia and the Possibility of its Elimination' focuses on the permanent existence of the Mafia in Italy without major success in the fight against its illegal activities. Firstly, I will explore the origin and development of the Mafia and factors pertaining to why it wasn't recognized exclusively as a criminal organization before the late 20th century; a view shaped by a cultural-historical and linguistic analysis of this ever-powerful institution. Following this, I will address specific strategies used in the fight against the Mafia to support the hypothesis that cooperation between its penitent former members and the judiciary, in conjunction with the existence of effective legislative measures, is a decisive and effective method for the possible destruction of the Mafia.
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Ingracsi, Ombretta. "Mafia women in contemporary Italy : the changing role of women in the Italian mafia since 1945." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2005. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/26683.

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By relying mainly on court cases and interviews with pentiti (people who turned state's evidence), this thesis shows that the role of women in the Italian mafia has significantly changed since 1945. Beyond performing their traditional role, including transmitting mafia values, encouraging vendetta, guaranteeing men's honour and participating in arranged marriages, women started to be involved in criminal activities. Through an historical approach, this thesis demonstrates that changes in the mafia in terms of businesses and structure, and changes in Italian women's conditions have been contributory factors to the above process. This thesis identifies those historical conjunctures where the supply and demand of female labour met within the last thirty years. Since the 1970s, the expansion of drug trafficking and the subsequent accumulation of vast sums of money to be recycled led the mafia to employ women who were also trustworthy and above suspicion. The mafia's need to involve women occurred also in the early 1980s and in the early-mid 1990s when the state improved its battle against the mafia. As many mafia bosses were imprisoned or went underground women assumed temporary leadership positions. The mafia's need for workers was concomitant with the changes in women's conditions in the legal world, resulting in the gradual dissolution of gender barriers and the growth of female education, which made women more likely to be employed by organised crime. This thesis argues that the new female participation in the mafia was not the result of a concession of equality within the mafia labour market. General indicators, such as the persistence of patriarchal relations and women's economic dependence, temporary allocation of power to women during periods of emergency, use of female labour in low profile jobs, and exclusion of women from career opportunities, suggest that the increasing public presence of women in the mafia, beyond mere supportive and private roles, was the result of a process of female `pseudo-emancipation'. On the contrary, women who turned state's evidence were examples of female liberation since they chose to reject the male dominated mafia system.
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Slade, Gavin Victor. "Mafia and anti-mafia in the Republic of Georgia : criminal resilience and adaptation since the collapse of Communism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a0fdb4a-a671-4675-840d-dea296bc5272.

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'Thieves-in-law' (vory-v-zakone in Russian or kanonieri qurdebi in Georgian) are career criminals belonging to a criminal fraternity that has existed at least since the 1930s in the Soviet Gulag. These actors still exist in one form or another in post-Soviet countries and have integrated into transnational organised criminal networks. For reasons yet to be explicated, thieves-in-law became exceptionally prevalent in the Soviet republic of Georgia. Here, by the 1990s, they formed a mafia network where this means criminal associations that attempt to monopolize protection in legal and illegal sectors of the economy. In 2005, Mikhail Saakashvili, the current president of Georgia claimed that 'in the past 15 years ... Georgia was not ruled by [former President] Shevardnadze, but by thieves-in-law.' Directly transferring anti-organised crime policy from Italy and America, Saakashvili's government made reform of the criminal justice system generally and an attack on the thieves-in-law specifically a cornerstone of the Rose Revolution. New legislation criminalises the possession of the status of ‘thief-in-law’ and of membership of criminal associations that constitute what is known as the ‘thieves’ world’ (qurduli samkaro). Along with a sweeping reform of the police and prisons and a ‘culture of lawfulness’ campaign, Georgian criminal justice reforms since 2003 may be seen as the first sustained anti-mafia policy to be implemented in a post-Soviet country. It also appears to have been very successful. The longevity and sudden decline of the thieves-in-law in Georgia provides the main questions that the following study addresses: How do we account for changes in the levels of resilience to state attack of actors carrying the elite criminal status of ‘thief-in-law’? How has this resilience been so effectively compromised since 2005? Utilising unique access to primary sources of data such as police files, court cases, archives and expert interviews this thesis studies the dynamics of changing mafia activities, recruitment practices, and structural forms of a criminal group as it relates to changes in the environment and, in particular, the recent anti-organised crime policy.
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Dietz, Gudrun. "Mythos der Mafia im Spiegel intermedialer Präsenz." Göttingen V & R Unipress, Bonn Univ. Press, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3025525&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Coluccello, Salvatore. "L'immagine della Mafia Siciliana : dall'apologia alla denuncia." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410524.

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Sauloy, Mylène. "Colombie drogue, mafia et pouvoir, 1970-1985 /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37618452v.

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Sauloy, Mylène. "Colombie : drogue, mafia et pouvoir, 1970-1985." Paris 3, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA03A015.

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La drogue est un element incontournable dans l'analyse de la crise colombienne aujourd'hui. Une crise manifeste dans la vulnerabilite de l'etat, sa deliquescence et son atomisation. Une crise tangible au niveau economique, ideologique et culturel. Une crise enfin qui atteint son paroxyme avec le blocage endemique du systeme politique et le dechainement d'une violence generalisee. En colombie, les parrains de la drogue jouent un role preponderant dans ce processus. Leur argent corrompt, soit, mais l'etat lui-meme n'a pas hesite a s'en servir comme d'un instrument de politique economique. Leur influence sociale est telle qu'ils sont a l'origine de la "classe emergente" (la classe "montante") l'economie de la drogue est totalement integree a l'economie legale. En fait, la montee de la mafia en colombie n'est explicable que parce qu'elle renforce le pouvoir en place. Mais en meme temps, il faut l'interpreter comme un facteur de remise en cause de l'echelle de valeurs dominantes et de l'image de l'etat. Et finalement de la legitimite de l'etat lui-meme
Drugs are a factor impossible to ignore when analysing today's colombian crisis. The colombian state is parcelled out; it suffers from anaemia and decay. The crisis is sensible in economic, ideological and cultural aspects too. Its climax is reached with the endemic jamming of the political system and the bursting out of generalized violence. Colombian drugs traffickers are playing a determinating part in this process. Their money corrupts, indeed, but the state itself did not hesitate to use it as an instrument for its economic policy. Their social influence is so important that they gave birth to a new social class; the "classe emergente" (the "rising class"). Drugs economy is totally integrated in the legal economy. Finally, mafia's growth in colombia is to be explained by the fact that it strengthens the established power. But, at the same time, it has to be interpreted as a factor of disruption in the prevailing scale of values and the state's image. As a last result, it calls the very legitimacy of the state into question
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Picchi, Lorenzo [Verfasser]. "The State-Mafia Deal : An analysis of the strategies and patterns of the Sicilian Mafia. 1989-2006. / Lorenzo Picchi." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1237269237/34.

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Hofmann, Martin Ludwig. "Monopole der Gewalt : mafiose Macht, staatliche Souveränität und die Wiederkehr normativer Theorie /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399090579.

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Clifford, Adrianne Brown. "Tumor Associated Macrophages in a MaFIA Mouse Model." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1427.pdf.

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Angelov, Borislav(Borislav L. ). "Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/121811.

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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101).
The thesis looks at the very specific economic and political circumstances in post-Communist Bulgaria that led to the emergence of Mafia Baroque as a distinct architectural style and an instrument for communicating power. Building on the context of the economic meltdown of the mid-1990s, the urban development out-pacing the changing regulatory environment due to corruption, , and the unclear laws relating to land restitution and private development- it seeks to understand how these mafia individuals exploited the construction industry and architecture, and what the future manifestations of these mechanisms could be. A new wave of rural migration to the cities and the current construction boom, present an opportunity for these macho nationalist "businessmen" to establish themselves as "righteous members and builders of society". The thesis will neither seek to create a dialectical- "cleaned up" version of Mafia Baroque nor will it just serve as a cautionary tale projecting a bleak future. If ornament used to be a direct product of crime, could it now express its patron's ulterior motive for an improved urban environment as it takes on additional collective functions besides communicating power? The previous flat kit bashing of parts will be replaced with new programmatic and spatial explorations that seek to project a new synthetic urban condition replacing the individualized enclaves of the present.
by Borislav Angelov.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Silva, Moacir Nunes e. "A geopolítica da economia mafiocontemporânea." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8136/tde-13072010-142557/.

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Máfia será uma expressão abordada neste trabalho como uma concepção verbo-substantivo, tendo em vista o funcionamento do sistema capitalista, na lógica de possibilidades de investimento, envolvendo personagens mafiosos e práticas mafiosas, por isso a intenção de selar o verbo ao substantivo, visando estabelecer a imanência entre os indivíduos e suas ações, a fim de evitar análises baseadas em estereotipias de certos grupos, enquanto outros permanecem incólumes diante aos olhos da sociedade e inatingíveis diante da justiça, em razão da posição que ocupam. Assim, a dimensão será a de considerar a pessoa que mafia como mafioso, independentemente de seu status social, envolto no poder de influência, dimensão esta capaz de distingui-lo do mafioso clássico (o bandido oficial). Contudo, essa alteridade não o diferencia, apesar de não dominar os códigos, de não participar dos rituais e nem compactuar do estilo de vida produzido pelos criminosos latu sensu. As práticas esboçadas pelos arautos da economia e da política formal serão decodificadas como mafiosas ao longo dos seis capítulos que compõem esta tese. Geograficamente, a intenção desta pesquisa visa examinar a territorialidade dos lugares mafiosos do mundo contemporâneo, suas redes, seu entrelaçamento e suas implicações na economia dita formal, trabalho realizado a partir da aplicação clássica de conceitos já construídos sobre o tema e ensaiando a elaboração de outros. Pela raiz do trabalho se fará necessário um diálogo com outros campos do conhecimento, a fim de melhor visualizar a leitura geopolítica do mundo mafio-contemporâneo em sua complexa socioespacialidade.
The term Balkanization as proposed by Norberto Bobbio. Corresponds to the idea to characterize a division of continental, subcontinental or regional units politically separated or hostile towards one another. Such concept is associated to the balkanic region during the Balkan Wars, between 1912 and 1913 which fragmented nations into distinct political units and the prevailing process of relationship among new State-institutions. Nevertheless, the title of this research as the result of the project, grants to the concept double connotation. Hence, Balkanization in itself means the fragmentation within nations per se. However, it prioritizes former segretating process, chiefly those occurred post- Balkan Wars, identifying characters and movements of extensive dismantling power, and tries to disprove some truths long regarded as absolute ones, such as the one concerning the Muslim Turkish people seen as blood-thirsty and the Roman Catholic Church as libertarian. The second term \"Balcanization\" intends to focus on the world wide understanding of the Balkans, a spetacular image, revealing the generally accepted analysis of the region. The work by Maria Todorova - Imagining the Balkans - was an essencial reference towards the demystification of the expression, whose connotation has always carried a great deal of prejudice and derrogattory perspective, particularly as long as the territory once named Yugoslavia, which is the object of this research, is concerned. By limitating the studied perspective above to the Yugoslavia case and covering such fields as the local, the regional and global spheres, the title of this research intends to enlighten and define both senses, the object and its image, apprehending as accurately as possible its diversity of meanings, thus: From Balkanization to \"Balkanization\".
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Broyer, Philippe. "Les réseaux du blanchiment de l'argent : l'émergence d'un nouveau système." Marne-la-Vallée, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MARN0062.

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L'argent de provenance douteuse pose un probleme a ceux qui le detiennent ; il n'est guere presentable en son etat d'origine et doit donc suivre un traitement destine a preparer son introduction dans l'economie legale : il s'agit du processus de blanchiment. Les besoins en ce domaine sont directement lies aux activites de la criminalite organisee dont le developpement est marque par un double mouvement de diversification et d'internationalisation. Les voies, les moyens et les lieux utilises pour la realisation d'operations de blanchiment sont tres varies mais l'objectif recherche est toujours le meme. Les conditions d'une lutte efficace contre le blanchiment sont-elles actuellement reunies ? la question doit s'envisager en tenant compte des mutations intervenues au cours de ces dernieres annees sur la scene internationale. On constate aujourd'hui que l'evolution du systeme economique et financier mondial a progressivement cree un contexte de plus en plus favorable pour tous ceux qui souhaitent blanchir de l'argent. D'une part, les fonds provenant d'activites criminelles circulent dans les memes conditions que les autres capitaux. D'autre part, l'interpenetration croissante entre les activites legales et illegales est propice a la realisation d'operations de recyclage ; enfin, les systemes de transfert electronique de fonds facilitent le blanchiment et rendent sa detection quasiment impossible. Les efforts entrepris par les pays occidentaux pour combattre le blanchiment sont caracterises par leur grande dispersion et leur relative inefficacite ; la creation de services de renseignements financiers ne constitue pas une reponse suffisante en outre, le developpement des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication est en train de remettre en cause les fondements des dispositifs actuels tant preventifs que repressifs. Ces systemes reposent sur l'identification des clients a l'occasion des contacts entre ceux-ci et les intermediaires financiers ; or, les nouvelles technologies permettent justement d'entrer en relation avec des clients en l'absence de tout contact
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Hedback, Sara. "Giovanni Falcone : l'uomo che cercò di combattere la mafia." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Italienska, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-3100.

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Kipacha, Ahmad. "Kingome-English lexicon." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91254.

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Caplan, Pat. "Changing Swahili Cultures in a Globalising World: An Approach from Anthropology." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-137420.

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This article considers what might be meant by Swahili cultures and Swahili identities. It regards neither concept as fixed, but as constituting a repertoire from which people choose strategically, depending not only upon location and historical time, but also upon social context. The processes of constituting cultures and identities are part of the making of meaning, a process in which, as will be seen, there are important continuities, ruptures and contradictions. With its attention to detail and its ability to give voice to the local, ethnography plays an important role in understanding the construction of both cultures and identities. In this paper, ethnographic examples are drawn both from my own fieldwork on Mafia Island, Tanzania, begun in 1965, and from the work of other anthropologists and scholars who have carried out research on the East African coast and islands.
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Salen, Katie. "Pokéwalkers, mafia dons, and football fans : play mobile with me." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/4982/.

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This paper addresses a theoretical reconfiguration of experience, a repositioning of the techno-social within the domains of mobility, games, and play, and embodiment. The ideas aim to counter the notion that our experience with videogames (and digital media more generally), is largely “virtual” and disembodied – or at most exclusively audiovisual. Notions of the virtual and disembodied support an often-tacit belief that technologically mediated experiences count for nothing if not perceived and valued as human. It is here where play in particular can be put to work, be made to highlight and clarify, for it is in play that we find this value of humanity most wholly embodied. Further, it is in considering the design of the metagame that questions regarding the play experience can be most powerfully engaged. While most of any given game’s metagame emerges from play communities and their larger social worlds (putting it out of reach of game design proper), mobile platforms have the potential to enable a stitching together of these experiences: experiences held across time, space, communities, and bodies. This coming together thus represents a convergence not only of media, participants, contexts, and technologies, but of human experience itself. This coming together is hardly neat, nor fully realized. It is, if nothing else, multifaceted and worthy of further study. It is a convergence in which the dynamics of screen play are reengaged.
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Walston, J. "Mafia and clientelism : Roads to Rome in post war Calabria." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384551.

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Rajashekar, Anirudh V. "Do private water tankers in Bangalore exhibit "mafia-like" behavior?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99090.

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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015.
"June 2015." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-104).
While there is an increasing acceptance in academic literature about the importance of informal water delivery in cities around the developing world, public opinion is often divided. Many citizens see informal water vendors as businesses controlled by extortionary "mafias" and call for government regulation. This thesis explores whether government regulation is justified in the case of Bangalore, India where water issues have become increasingly pressing and informal water vendors, also known as the "water mafia," have grown in number and in influence. In particular, this thesis will explore whether private tankers display any form of anti-competitive behavior by addressing two questions: 1) Do private water tankers exhibit monopoly power, and 2) Do private water tanker prices vary depending on the characteristics of the customers they serve? Evidence collected in July-August 2014 and January 2015 indicates that tankers do not operate in an anti-competitive manner and that government intervention is not justified on these grounds. However, tankers do contribute to declining groundwater levels and government intervention on these grounds ought to be explored.
by Anirudh Rajashekar.
M.C.P.
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Ravenda, Diego. "Inferences from Financial Statements of Legally Registered Mafia Firms in Italy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/286744.

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In this dissertation we examine labor tax avoidance, expenses manipulation and accrual management within a sample of 224 Italian firms defined as legally registered Mafia firms (LMFs), due to having been confiscated by judicial authorities in relation to alleged connections of their owners with Italian organized crime. Based on the insights gained, we further develop a predictive model that can contribute to the detection of LMFs. Overall, our results reveal that, before being confiscated, LMFs engage more in labor tax avoidance and accrual management relative to lawful firms (LWFs). Furthermore, LMFs upward manage material expenses and downward manage personnel and service expenses with a cumulative negative effect on reported cash flow relative to sales. On the other hand, following their confiscation and consequent assignment to legal administrators, practices of LMFs mostly become insignificantly different from those of LWFs, although LMFs continue exhibiting a higher degree of accrual management. Finally, our detection model correctly classifies 76.41% of firms within a matched sample of 852 firm-years including LMFs before confiscation and LWFs. Unlisted LMFs are socially irresponsible by nature because of their illicit purposes. In addition, their incentives, modus operandi and financial statement formats differ from those of listed companies. Hence, our study allows inferring conclusions on the relations of corporate social responsibility with earnings management and labor tax avoidance. Furthermore, it adopts new earnings management and labor tax avoidance measures that, as well as providing additional insights, may enhance further research on their effectiveness in other cultural, legal and institutional contexts and for other types of firm. Finally, but no less important, our findings can aid practitioners and regulators in identifying accounting signals that can be used in risk assessment models or in the detection of criminal infiltrations and related illicit practices, especially in countries with a strong criminal presence.
En aquesta tesi investiguem l’evasió contributiva laboral, la manipulació de despeses i la manipulació d’ajustos comptables dins una mostra de 224 empreses italianes definides com a empreses mafioses legalment registrades (LMFs) per haver sigut confiscades per les autoritats judicials a causa de presumptes connexions dels seus propietaris amb el crim organitzat italià. A partir dels resultats assolits, desenvolupem addicionalment un model predictiu que pot contribuir a la detecció de les LMFs. En general, els nostres resultats indiquen que, abans de ser confiscades, les LMFs realitzen més evasió contributiva laboral i manipulació d’ajustos comptables respecte a les empreses legals (LWFs). Addicionalment, les LMFs manipulen a l’alça les despeses de materials i manipulen a la baixa les despeses de personal i de serveis amb un efecte cumulatiu negatiu sobre el flux de caixa presentat respecte a les vendes. D’altra banda, després de la seva confiscació i la conseqüent assignació als administradors legals, les practiques de les LMFs esdevenen en general insignificativament diferents d’aquelles de les LWFs, tot i que les LMFs segueixen exhibint un grau major de manipulació d’ajustos comptables. Finalment, el nostre model de detecció classifica correctament el 76.41% de les empreses dins una mostra aparellada de 852 any-empreses que inclou les LMFs abans de la confiscació i les LWFs. Les LMFs no cotitzades son socialment irresponsables per natura a causa dels seus propòsits il·lícits. A més, els seus incentius, modus operandi i formats d’estats financers difereixen d’aquells de les empreses cotitzades. Per consegüent, el nostre estudi permet inferir conclusions sobre les relacions de la responsabilitat social corporativa amb la manipulació comptable i l’evasió contributiva laboral. Addicionalment, adopta noves mesures de manipulació comptable i evasió contributiva laboral que, a més de proporcionar nous coneixements, podrien fomentar una nova recerca sobre la seva efectivitat en altres contexts culturals, legals i institucionals i per a altres menes d’empreses. Finalment però no menys important, els nostres resultats poden ajudar els professionals i els reguladors a identificar senyals comptables que es poden utilitzar en models d’avaluació de riscos o per a la detecció d’infiltracions criminals i practiques il·lícites relatives, especialment en països amb una forta presencia criminal.
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Fulland, Lise. "Government Mafia? : a socio-economic approach to the legalization of narcotics." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-432.

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Swedish drug policies are among the most prohibitive in the world. Regardless of the ever expanding “narcotics criminal code” (narkotikastrafflagen), the drug use development in Sweden has followed international fluctuations in the narcotics market. A considerable increase in the number of debutants in using narcotics can be seen in the 1960s, followed by a reduction during the 1970s reaching a low in the mid 1980s. This is when the “zero-vision” on drugs is introduced in Sweden. Despite this vision and its accompanying increase in preventive measures, a remarkable increase in the number of users of narcotics has taken place from the 1990s up until the present.

Swedish policy today puts lots of recourses into catching the users of narcotics even though historically and in comparison to other countries punishment and force have not been seen to be the strategies giving results. At the same time the Netherlands who is seen as an ultra-liberal country on the issue of narcotics, show better results than ultra-prohibitive Sweden, better results being fewer serious abusers per 1000 inhabitants. The fact that they have a higher frequency of people regularly using cannabis does not seem to result in a high number of abusers of serious narcotics.

With this paper I wanted to raise the question whether or not the resources the Swedish state today use on the prevention of the use of drugs could be allocated in a different way. In my research I found that the reason for the development of an abuse of narcotics was not the mere existence of drugs themselves, but rather marginalization and social maladjustment. Therefore I think it is time to shift focus from the abuse of narcotics and to these reasons for the abuse.

In my paper I introduce one way of distributing legal narcotics through specialized drugstores where you need a license to be allowed to buy the narcotics. This is to help control the use of narcotics, to prevent illegal distribution, and to obtain information on the use patterns and demand for narcotics. This system is also meant to be a warning system to help the Swedish government to offer help to those who need it.

I have also done a qualitative cost- benefit analysis on the legalization of narcotics, listing all the possible costs and benefits this might have for society.

My conclusion is that regardless of the economical profits that could be made trough legalizing narcotics, there are bigger issues that I have not been able to monetize, that need to be considered when making this decision. One example could be health effects and the value of those.

Legalization is not necessarily the only road to take, but regardless of legalizing drugs or not, focus and resources should be shifted to prevent marginalization and social maladjustment and remove the reasons why people develop an abuse in the first place.


Den svenska narkotikapolitiken är en av de mest restriktiva i världen. Oberoende av den hela tiden expanderande narkotikastrafflagen så har drogutvecklingen i Sverige följt de internationala trenderna på narkotikamarknaden. En markant ökning i antalet narkotika- debutanter kan ses på 1960-talet, följt av en nedgång under 1970-talet. En botten nås på mitten av 1980-talet. Samtidigt introduceras ”nollvisionen” i den svenska narkotikapolitiken. Trots denna visionen och de tillhörande ökningarna i preventiva åtgärder, ser man en kraftig ökning i antalet narkotikaanvändare från mitten av 1990-talet och fram till i dag.

Dagens svenska narkotikapolitik lägger mycket fokus på att få tag på narkotikaanvändarna även om straff och tvång inte har varit de strategier som givit resultat, sett från ett historiskt perspektiv och i jämförelse med andra länder. Samtidigt visar Nederländerna, som ses som ett ultraliberalt land i narkotikafrågan, ett bättre resultat än ultrarestriktiva Sverige. Med ett bättre resultat menas färre missbrukare per 1000 invånare. Det faktum att Nederländerna har en högre frekvens av folk som regelbundet använder cannabis verkar inte ge ett högre antal narkotikamissbrukare.

Med denna uppsats vill jag ställa frågan om de resurser som svenska staten i dag lägger på att hindra narkotikaanvändandet kan allokeras på ett annat sätt. I min forskning fann jag att orsakerna till utvecklandet av ett missbruk var marginalisering och social missanpassning, inte själva existensen av narkotika. Av den anledningen menar jag att fokus måste flyttas från narkotikamissbruket och till anledningarna till narkotikamissbruket.

I min uppsats presenterar jag ett specifikt sätt att distribuera narkotika, nämligen genom specialiserade narkotikaaffärer där man behöver en licens för att köpa narkotika. Detta för att kunna kontrollera narkotikaanvändandet, hindra olaglig distribution av droger, samt för att erhålla information om användningsmönster och efterfrågan på narkotika. Detta system är också menat att hjälpa svenska staten att erbjuda hjälp till dem som behöver det.

Jag har även gjort en kvalitativ kostnads- nyttoanalys om legaliseringen av narkotika, i vilken jag räknar upp de kostnader och nyttor detta kan ha för samhället.

Min konklusion är dock att oberoende av de ekonomiska fördelar en legalisering skulle kunna ge, så finns det många omständigheter som jag inte kunnat värdera och vilka bör tas med när man tar detta beslut. Exempel på sådana kan vara hälsoeffekter och hur man värderar dessa.

Legalisering är inte nödvändigtvis ända sättet, men oavsett en legalisering eller inte borde fokus och resurser flyttas för att hindra marginalisering och social missanpassning, och eliminera orsakarna till att folk utvecklar ett missbruk i första hand.

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Ahmad, Rohail. "'Pure Mafia', a novel about child labour, plus thesis and commentary." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7666.

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This PhD in Creative Writing consists of three parts. The first part is a full-length novel, approximately 80K words, entitled Pure Mafia. It is a drama about child labour and the Pakistani “carpet mafia”. This is intertwined with the story of an unhappily married man undergoing a midlife crisis who has an affair with a younger woman; the latter is instrumental to the main plot about child labour. The book’s second main theme is British Pakistanis. An overarching theme is abuse and exploitation, both personal and global, but ultimately of redemption and renewal. The story is set in 2010/2011, mainly in London, England, with a middle section in Lahore, Pakistan. The second part is an academic thesis, approximately 20K words, entitled Cheap Labour = Child Labour, on the main theme of the novel, child labour. It attempts to show that child labour is an inevitable consequence of cheap labour generally, and that the only way to tackle child labour is to address cheap labour. The thesis has been consciously and deliberately written as an objective, third person, standalone document and for this reason does not mention the novel. It is partly designed to fulfil the general PhD criterion of demonstrating scholarship and research. The third part is a subjective, first person critical commentary, approximately 15K words, on the writing of the novel and the thesis, the connection between them, and the research context; it is entitled Pure Mafia: A critical commentary. It explains why the main thesis is on child labour, rather than on the creative process or an English Literature thesis; however, the commentary does include in some detail an insight into the creative process, as well as a discussion of influences and tradition of writing. The final section of the commentary summarises this entire PhD’s original contribution to knowledge.
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Sangimino, Marissa. "Rewriting the Mafioso: The Gangster Hero in the Work of Puzo, Coppola, and Rimanelli." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104214.

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Thesis advisor: Carlo Rotella
During the early to mid-1900s, an infatuation with the “gangster” grew in American popular culture. In response to historical events of the early twentieth century that polarized the United States class system, especially the Great Depression, those in the growing lower class became fascinated with actual and fictional figures that could demonstrate the ability to live “in-between;” that is, anyone who did not benefit from corporate capitalism but, rather, from standing on the dangerous middle ground between the classes, challenging economic, ethnic, and even legal boundaries. Both fictional and nonfictional figures of the “gangster” arose in American media in the form of a hyper-masculine character who could transform his humble origins into a luxurious life by committing brilliantly brutal crimes with bravado. As the gangster became more established over the course of the following decades and expanded in popularity beyond the original working-class audience, the gangster also became a nostalgic figure who offered a sense of tradition, which in part accounts for the gangster’s continuing popularity in modern media. As the first chapter explains, due to the association of southern Italian immigrants with crime and patriarchy in the United States, gangster and mafia fiction most largely concern southern Italians and Italian- Americans. Since its inception, the Italian-American gangster hero, or the “Mafioso,” has commanded a strong following among American audiences. Due to the saliency of the Mafioso figure and the widespread influence of the genre, both the figure and the narrative merit critical discussion and analysis. The first chapter of the following article outlines the ways in which traditional mafia fiction, epitomized by Puzo and Coppola’s sensational The Godfather, extrapolates from historical phenomena, like the hyphenate individual, with the tools of genre fiction in order to craft the classical Mafioso. The chapter considers the reliance of the Mafioso on such elements as bella figura and omertà, as well as socio-cultural norms assigned to Italian-Americans in the media, and considers the characteristics of the Mafioso by examining the character system present in The Godfather. In outlining the evolution of the Mafioso character, the first chapter explores what it means for the character of the gangster hero to perpetuate the values that once popularized it. In response, the second chapter provides a close reading of the work of parodist and multi-genre writer Giose Rimanelli, who takes bold and innovative steps in questioning the mafia narrative in his novel Benedetta in Guysterland. Rimanelli, a writer undoubtedly more focused on high-literary intertextuality than a genre writer, includes characters branded by the same traditional elements of The Godfather’s Mafioso but, instead of aggrandizing the Mafioso in the traditional fashion, utilizes these elements to question the foundation upon which classical mafia fiction relies. The chapter explicates Rimanelli’s clever use of referential language, unique narrative structure, and complex characters in order to analyze the ways in which Rimanelli demonstrates the potential for Italian-American literature to evolve. The chapter discusses Rimanelli’s recognition and distortion of mafia fiction tropes, scrutinizing key characters, and ultimately assays the potential for expansion in the mafia fiction genre. By providing a close reading of two texts, related in content but highly divergent in their method and objective, this article juxtaposes the historical Mafioso against his reexamined counterpart. Through an analysis of the history and canonical figuration of the gangster hero in The Godfather, and an examination of Rimanelli’s extensive reworking, the following two chapters call readers to recognize the historical context in which the Mafioso formed and rethink the literary outcomes of reinventing the tradition of both the character and the narrative
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: English
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Širvytė, Gražina. ""Mafija kaip Italijos (savi)įvaizdžio dalis. Italijos dienraščių analizė"." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080616_141915-08876.

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Bet koks nusikalstamas plačiai paviešintas įvykis ar reiškinys daro neigiamą įspūdį apie šalį – prisideda prie neigiamo šalies įvaizdžio kūrimo. Tačiau vienareikšmiškai neigiamai vertinti tokį istoriškai ir kultūriškai Italijos tapatybėje įsišaknijusį fenomeną kaip mafija, yra neteisinga. Šio tyrimo tikslas - remiantis Šiaurės, Pietų bei centrin��s Italijos dienraščių straipsnių mafijos tema kiekybine, kokybine bei žanrine analize, o taip pat mokslinės literatūros šaltinių analize, ištirti mafijos fenomeno pateikimą Italijos dienraščiuose kaip vieną iš Italijos įvaizdžio ir saviįvaizdžio formavimo prielaidų ir atskleisti skirtinguose dienraščiuose matomus minėto fenomeno įtakos skirtumus Italijos įvaizdžiui bei saviįvaizdžiui atskirose šalies dalyse. Tyrimo tikslas lemia ir tyrimo objektą, kuris yra straipsniai apie mafiją Italijos dienraščių „Corriere della Sera“, „La Repubblica“ ir „Il Mattino“ 2007 metų numeriuose. Tyrimo hipotezė teigia, jog būdama šalies identiteto dalis, mafija Italijos saviįvaizdžiui nedaro apčiuopiamos įtakos, tačiau dėl mafijos egzistavimo kenčia šalies įvaizdis, pozicionuojamas itališkoje spaudoje. Darbe atskleisti Italijos medijų sistemos ypatumai ir aptarta spaudos vieta Italijos medijų sistemoje; pristatyta agenda setting teorijos reikšmė šalies įvaizdžio kūrimui(si) bei tyrimui; identifikuota identiteto svarba šalies įvaizdžio ir saviįvaizdžio formavimui(si); apžvelgti Italijos įvaizdžio kūrimo ypatumai ir pristatyti ankstesni tyrimai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
This paper aims at analyzing the articles about mafia published in the present-day dailies of the Northern, Southern and Central Italy and revealing the presentation of the mafia phenomena like one of the Italy’s image and self image forming assumption and revealing the differences of the phenomena presentation in the different parts of the State. The main sources for this thesis are the articles concerning mafia published in the Italian dailies “Corriere della Sera”, “La Repubblica” and ��Il Mattino” covering the period from the 1st of January, till the 31st of December, 2007. It was hypothesized that being a part of the state’s identity, mafia doesn’t have tangible influence on Italian self image but because of its existence, the dailies positioned image of the State is negatively influenced. Content analysis quantitative and qualitative, genre analysis and scientific literature analysis methods were used for the research. The hypothesis was proven and some other facts regarding an image and a self image of Italy were discovered.
Ogni crimine ampiamente proclamato fa un effeto negativo sull’immagine dello stato. Il fenomeno mafioso, per il suo impatto storico e culturale all’idenità italiana, non può essere considerato come solamente negativo. L’obbiettivo di questa ricerca è, basandosi sull’analisi quantitativa, qualitativa, generica, degli articoli sulla mafia dei quotidiani, rappresentanti le diverse parti – Nord, Sud e Centrale – dell’Italia, e anche sull’analisi della letteratura scientifica, esaminare la rappresentazione del fenomeno mafioso come una premessa della formazione dell’immagine e dell’(auto)immagine d’Italia nelle parti diverse del paese. L‘oggetto della ricerca sono gli articoli sulla mafia pubblicati nei quotidiani „Corriere della Sera”, „La Repubblica” e „Il Mattino” nel 2007. L‘ipotesi della ricerca suppone che essendo una parte dell’identità dello stato, la mafia non ha un impatto significativo all’immagine d’Italia. Ma l’esistenza del fenomeno, fa un effetto negativo sull’immagine dello stato che viene posizionato nella stampa italiana. In questa ricerca sono stati rivelati le particolarità del sistema massmediatico italiano; presentata l’importanza della teoria dell’agenda setting per la costruzione e la ricerca dell’immagine di uno stato; identificata l’importanza d’identità per la formazione dell’immagine e dell’autoimmagine dello stato; presentate le particolarità della creazione dell’immagine d’Italia e le altre ricerche fatte su quell’immagine; definito il termine e... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Vaccarello, Jaclyn. "The mafia in America the media's influence on stereotypes of Italian Americans /." Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/lib/digcoll/undergraduate/honors-theses/341796.

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Phillips, Amber Lindsey. "Not the mafia you know : cultural representations of the 'Ndràngheta, 1955-2015." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.743012.

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Bykova, Dognon Oksana. "La mafia russe et le crime organisé dans le cinéma : (1988-2010) : représentation, communication et esthétique." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH034.

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Aujourd'hui, bien que la mafia russe soit officiellement démantelée, elle continue à influencer et à transformer l’identité de son «fidèle» spectateur par la voie cinématographique. Dans ce cas comme dans sans doute beaucoup d’autres, comme le rappelle à juste titre Valérie Pozner, « le cinéma doit être replacé au sein d’un vaste réseau de pratiques spectaculaires et de stratégies éducatives, politiques et informatives hétérogènes ».1Cette thèse revient en premier lieu sur les participants et les engagements de cette coopération entre la mafia et le cinéma. Avant de retracer les principaux traits de ce mariage ciné-mafia-politique, nous allons aborder les formes nouvelles qui apparaissent dans ce nouveau style de cinéma criminel très populaire et répandu dans la société russe. Pour cela faire, dans un premier temps, la recherche donnera certaines détaillées nécessaires pour illustrer les principaux acteurs et principaux événements de la véritable guerre sanglante des groupement criminelles pendant la Grande Révolution Criminelle Russe de 1988-1994. Dans un deuxième temps, nous analyserons les mécanismes de propagande, véhiculés par le cinéma du genre mafieux et criminel russe dont une partie appartient à l’héritage soviétique. Ces mécanismes de propagande, explicites ou masqués, mais surtout ayant un rôle de promotion pour la toute-puissance Russie, accompagnent cette brutalité d’un style de vie que les occidentaux étudient, afin de le comprendre, depuis des siècles. Un Etat « à part » ainsi que son cinéma, que l'on peut aimer ou détester, mais face auquel on ne peut rester indiffèrent !Ce travail de doctorat s'appuiera sur trois hypothèses :Hypothèse 1 : L'arrivée de la Mafia russe dans les circuits de financement du cinéma est aussi une médiation, une communication entre la vie de l'Organisation et le grand public. Elle s'exprime notamment par la mise en place de ce que nous pourrions appeler une « esthétique mafieuse ».Hypothèse 2 : Les attributs de cette esthétique mafieuse profitent des attributs de l'esthétique à laquelle elle succède : l’esthétique soviétique, le socialisme. La question de la conscientisation de ces transformations est une question cruciale.Hypothèse 3 : Cette esthétique mafieuse, cinématographique opère une communication publique et, donc, une évolution des représentations sociales des spectateurs. Nous allons faire l'évaluation de ces valeurs par le public
Today, although the Russian mafia and organized crime community is officially defeated, it continues to influence, transform the identity of his « faithful » viewers through by the way of cinema. It's necessary to understand the exchanges between the cinema said « criminal fiction » and its influence on the public reality. On the one hand the Russian mafia identity of cinema was built across the international market and international audiovisual film.The originality of Russian fictional crime genre, in particular, that it was in some cases produced, directed and performed by former criminals, who also faced historical changes, and were influenced by Hollywood mafia movies lived a period of transformation in « cinema professionals », as also the professionals in the field of other arts such as literature, publication, music, television. Such was the case of Vitaly Demochka 1, the former criminal, who became director, producer, actor and writer. The particularity of his case, that he directed and performed his own « life story » on the screen, as well the members of his former criminal team became the fictional heroes of his film « Spets ».In parallel, our work is focused on the study of “communicating objects”, such as a music, behavior, language, dress code, tattoos. Which have become representative as the 'weapon' of mafia propaganda, projected in the cinema and widely recycled in reality, and vice versa. It operates not only the mythification of public communication but therefore, the evolution of the social representations and even transformation of the spectators
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Kipacha, Ahmad. "Kingome-English lexicon." Swahili Forum 11; (2004), S. 179-209, 2004. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11514.

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Marshall, Hollianne Elizabeth. "Defended neighborhoods and organized crime does organized crime lower street crime? /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002751.

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Scarabelli, D. "La polizia e la mafia in Sicilia : cogestione, collusione e ragion di stato, 1866-1875. (The Police and the Mafia in Sicily : collusion, co-management, and raison d’état, 1866-1875.)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1435554/.

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My research focuses on one of the first important instances in which the Italian state and Mafia gangs established some kind of cooperation aimed at managing public order in Palermo after Italian unification. Specifically my thesis examines the time period between 1866 and 1875. During this period we can find public accusations and confidential reports that describe a system based on the interaction between State actors and Mafiosi or criminals in general. The entire police, judiciary, and government apparatus of the Italian State seems have been involved. The central government itself was aware of this system and allowed it. The type of exchange that took place between the parties was so consistent and coordinated that can be viewed as a "system of co-management at a high level". Therefore, it is the first case of wide-ranging transactions with criminal groups and Mafiosi to occur after Italian unification. This system was born for specific reasons and it developed due to local, national, and European contingencies and needs. Safeguarding public order was perceived as a fundamental condition for protecting Italian Unity that had just been achieved. The Palermo uprising of 1866 had triggered fears, among the Italian political elites, that the country would disintegrate. My research aims at revealing the roots, goals, evolution, and consequences of this system. The choices made in the 1860s would have had repercussions in Palermo and in Italy for the rest of that century and created the conditions for further collusion between the institutions and the Mafia. The analysis of this first compromise that the Italian State put into operation with the Sicilian Mafia is also beneficial for understanding exchanges between institutions and the Mafia that are a constant in Mafia history.
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Mak, Man-kee. "A comparative study of triad societies and the Mafia past, present and future /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31975550.

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Mak, Man-kee, and 麥民基. "A comparative study of triad societies and the Mafia: past, present and future." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975550.

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Lambert, Maria T. "Attack of the Mommy Mafia| Examining The Honest Company's Use of Coombs' SCCT Strategies." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1593182.

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A crisis can threaten the existence of an organization, and in this social media age, information is spread at lightning-fast speeds forcing crisis communication managers to work quickly to quell any unflattering press. Companies in crisis situations attempt to mitigate damage and repair reputations using crisis communication strategies, such as Coombs’ Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT). This thesis explored social media as a crisis communication channel for these strategies, by studying an organizational crisis that played out almost entirely on social media, through the lens of SCCT.

This thesis used six statements made by The Honest Company during a 2013 crisis where stakeholders accused the company of bullying a working mother over trademark rights. The company’s crisis communication messages were retrieved, and by using discourse analysis the messages were examined through the guidelines of the SCCT model, which allowed categorization of the messages according to SCCT, analysis of their effectiveness, and the defining of SCCT challenges in analyzing this organizational conflict aggrandized through social media.

This study found that even though The Honest Company did not strictly adhere to SCCT’s guidelines, it was able to flourish and surpass consumer expectations after the crisis ended. The examination of this crisis offered insight into SCCT’s lack of clarity and direction concerning its crisis types, strategies, and guidelines. It also offered suggestions for more specific crisis types and the expansion of crisis types for SCCT.

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Cammarata, Natalie A. "Cosmopolitan vs. Provincial Newspaper Coverage: A Content Analysis of the Sicilian Mafia in Italy." Ohio : Ohio University, 2010. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1268345892.

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Bandiera, Oriana. "Economic Institutions in Developing Countries." Thesis, Boston College, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1752.

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This thesis is a collection of three essays, each of which analyses an economic institution in one or more developing countries. A careful analysis of institutions is crucial for the understanding of economic performance and for the design of effective policy measures. In the first essay, "On the Structure of Tenancy Contracts" I analyse the effect of crop and tenant characteristics on the form and on the length of tenancy contracts. Using a principal-agent model I show that highpowered incentives are used when, due to the characteristics of the crop, their benefit is high and/or when, due to the characteristics of the tenant, their cost is low. The theoretical predictions are consistent with the empirical evidence from a unique data set of 705 contracts. The purpose of the second essay, "Competing for Protection: Land Fragmentation and the Rise of Mafia in 19th Century Sicily", is to identify the conditions that fostered the development of the mafia. I argue that in the context of 19th century Sicily, land fragmentation was crucial for the rise of mafia. Using a menu-auction model I show that, by inducing landlords' competition for protection, land fragmentation increases the profits of mafia groups even if the assets in need of protection are unchanged. I show that the predictions of the theory are consistent with the available empirical evidence from a sample of 70 Sicilian villages. In the third essay, "Does Financial Reform Raise or Reduce Savings?", we analyse the effect of financial liberalisation on private savings in eight developing countries. To this purpose we construct an index which summarises the reform process and estimate an error correction model for savings. We find that the effect of financial reform on savings is ambiguous
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 1999
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics
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Guédon, Jean-Philippe. "Criminalité organisée et droit pénal." Paris 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA010324.

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La criminalité organisée est une notion vague qui ne se limite pas au phénomène des mafias, et qui inclut le terrorisme. Une lutte efficace suppose une intervention anticipée ( ex : par des incriminations précoces comme l'association de malfaiteurs), la prise en compte du caractère collectif des infractions (circonstance aggravante de bande organisée) et la mise en cause de chaque participant (y compris l'instigateur et le groupe criminel en tant que personne morale). La répression en droit français se caractérise par la recherche d'une efficacité procédurale (régime spécial de garde à vue, perquisitions facilitées, procédés d'enquête spécifiques comme les livraisons contrôlées de stupéfiants) et par la sévérité des peines. Mais la répression n'est pas sans limites (traitement de faveur accordé aux repentis, respect des principes essentiels du droit pénal). Il faut parvenir à un équilibre entre les nécessités impérieuses de la répression et le respect des droits fondamentaux.
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Muti, Giuseppe. "La criminalité environnementale." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010586.

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La criminalité environnementale est un chapitre privilégié de l'analyse géopolitique des phénomènes criminels parce qu'elle rend transparent les rapport entre territoire et pouvoir au niveaux multiscalaire. Délit à caractère transnational, le crime environnemental trouve son origine dans l'illégalité banalisée et encourage une culture de l'illégalité. Mafias, organisations criminelles, crimes économiques et crime du politique sont au même temps engagées dans les spécialités criminelles contre l'environnement: vol et trafic d'œuvres d'art et fouilles archéologiques clandestines ; trafic d'espèces protégées animales et végétales; édifications sans permis et conditionnement des marchés publics des infrastructures et de l'aménagement du territoire ; trafic de déchets. L'Union européenne viens d'approuver une décision cadre pour la protection de l'environnement par le droit pénal. Le cas italien permet un approfondissement théorique intéressant concernent mafias et corruption.
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Florack, Nina. "Transnationale kriminelle und terroristische Netzwerke ein Vergleich der Netzwerkstruktur der albanischen Mafia mit der Jemaah Islamiyah." Berlin Köster, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000881520/04.

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Varese, Federico. "The emergence of the Russian mafia : dispute settlement and protection in a new market economy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359981.

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Christie, Annalisa Charlton. "Exploring the social context of maritime exploitation in the Mafia Archipelago, Tanzania : an archaeological perspective." Thesis, University of York, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542821.

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Černohorský, David. "Krizové aspekty dluhu Itálie." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193468.

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The work examines the hypothesis that the Italian debt has already reached its critical level and the creditors no longer trust the country. I concluded that it's far from having reached its critical level. Despite the rising debt and internal problems, Italy borrows more cheaply than before and thanks to economic growth and some reforms we can expect this trend to continue. On the other hand, the country still has major structural problems and struggles with high unemployment and declining competitiveness. In the case of failure to introduce necessary reforms, in a longer-term can Italy suffer by significant problems.
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Zimmerman, Mélanie A. "International organized crime : godfathers on the Riviera : the international reach of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the mechanism to combat it." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14396.

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The organised crime industry on a whole generates an estimated gross criminal product of $800 billion USD annually generated from traditional crime industries like money laundering, cigarette and narcotics trafficking and prostitution. As a result of the new, globalised world, organised crime is diversifying its activities, penetrating legal sectors and further corrupting political systems. In general, it has been quick to adjust to the new economic opportunities and new technologies that this global village has to offer, and has been far more efficient in exploiting every available opportunity than its police and justice counterparts in preventing it from doing so. The face of international organised crime has changed to include new, sometimes smaller, often more dangerous actors, and has seen the traditional crime families metamorphose to keep up with the new environment. Diversification, penetration, legitimisation are the new guiding motto. The Sicilian Cosa Nostra has sought alternative ways to generate additional profits whilst reducing the risk factor. In order to branch-out, escape prosecution and yet remain within a pivotal and strategic position, the Cosa Nostra has chosen, amongst other havens, the French Riviera. Today, political and popular mobilisation and interest in combating organised crime is minimal, largely relegated to folklore status, crime annals, and the cinema industry. However, no judicial tool or innovation can have concrete and effective applications if the political will is not predominant and if concerted international co-operation is not enforced. The risk, should this trend continue, is that organised crime will become a dominant and decisive actor in State affairs, may continue to take over unstable micro-states and pervert the democratic process and the rule of law around the world. The threat is not so much to stand by and wait as crime develops further, but how long this lack of reaction can continue before it becomes irreversible.
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Champeyrache, Clotilde. "L'entreprise légale-mafieuse : contribution critique à la théorie des droits de propriété." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010064.

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L'objectif de la thèse est de construire un cadre théorique et analytique pour comprendre la signification économique des entreprises légales-mafieuses, c'est-à- dire des entreprises légales du point de vue de l'activité mais mafieuses du point de vue de la propriété. Un tel cadre repose sur la théorie des droits de propriété dans la mesure où la propriété est à la base de la spécificité de ce type d'entreprises. Par ailleurs, les droits de propriété se rapportent à l'économie du droit et reflètent ainsi les commixtions entre légalité et illégalité. Dans un premier temps, je place le cadre analytique en expliquant quels sont les outils théoriques offerts par la théorie des droits de propriété, en général et par rapport aux activités économiques (aussi bien légales qu'illégales) exercées par des mafieux. Dans un deuxième temps, je fonde une hypothèse nouvelle en théorie des droits de propriété en construisant et validant la non neutralité de l'identité des propriétaires. La référence est faite au débat entre Coase (1960) et Demsetz (1988). Pour Coase, la réallocation des droits de propriété d'un agent à un autre est neutre du point de vue de l'efficience. Demsetz considère qu'une telle affirmation n'a pas de sens si le problème de l'allocation des droits de propriété est traité dans un cadre dynamique : l'effet de revenu qui découle de toute réallocation change le mix final d'outputs. Demsetz énonce cela comme " le problème de l'identité des propriétaires ". Ma thèse cherche à donner des bases plus étendues au dit problème par référence aux entreprises légales-mafieuses. D'un point de vue empirique, je mets en évidence des processus mafieux qui valident la non neutralité de l'identité quand le propriétaire est mafieux, tels que l'usage des droits de propriété mutuelle, la rareté artificielle, l'effet de verrouillage sur les droits de propriété. La thèse finit par une évaluation économique d'une loi italienne permettant la confiscation des entreprises légales-mafieuses.
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Rostami, Amir. "Criminal Organizing : Studies in the sociology of organized crime." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-128362.

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What organized crime is and how it can be prevented are two of the key questions in both organized crime research and criminal policy. However, despite many attempts, organized crime research, the criminal justice system and criminal policy have failed to provide a shared and recognized conceptual definition of organized crime, which has opened the door to political interpretations. Organized crime is presented as an objective reality—mostly based on anecdotal empirical evidence and generic descriptions—and has been understood, as being intrinsically different from social organization, and this has been a justification for treating organized crime conceptually separately. In this dissertation, the concept of organized crime is deconstructed and analyzed. Based on five studies and an introductory chapter, I argue that organized crime is an overarching concept based on an abstraction of different underlying concepts, such as gang, mafia, and network, which are in turn semi-overarching and overlapping abstractions of different crime phenomena, such as syndicates, street-gangs, and drug networks. This combination of a generic concept based on underlying concepts, which are themselves subject to similar conceptual difficulties, has given rise to a conceptual confusion surrounding the term and the concept of organized crime. The consequences of this conceptual confusion are not only an issue of semantics, but have implications for our understanding of the nature of criminal collaboration as well as both legal and policy consequences. By combining different observers, methods and empirical materials relating to dimensions of criminal collaboration, I illustrate the strong analogies that exist between forms of criminal collaboration and the theory of social organization. I argue in this dissertation that criminal organizing is not intrinsically different from social organizing. In fact, the dissertation illustrates the existence of strong analogies between patterns of criminal organizing and the elements of social organizations. But depending on time and context, some actions and forms of organizing are defined as criminal, and are then, intentionally or unintentionally, presumed to be intrinsically different from social organizing. Since the basis of my argument is that criminal organizing is not intrinsically different from social organizing, I advocate that the study of organized crime needs to return to the basic principles of social organization in order to understand the emergence of, and the underlying mechanism that gives rise to, the forms of criminal collaboration that we seek to explain. To this end, a new general analytical framework, “criminal organizing”, that brings the different forms of criminal organizations and their dimensions together under a single analytical tool, is proposed as an example of how organizational sociology can advance organized crime research and clarify the chaotic concept of organized crime.

At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 5: Manuscript.

 

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Lanfranca, Dario. "L’autonomie politique en Sicile entre nationalisme et mafia dans les documents historiques et les textes littéraires." Paris 8, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA083965.

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Notre thèse porte sur la culture politique sicilienne et son histoire, notamment sur l’idée d’autonomie. Nous analysons les documents, aussi bien historiques que littéraires, qui présentent des traces de cette culture politique à la nature complexe, originale et obscure. En tant qu’élaboration idéologique, l’autonomie existe depuis les premières formes de rhétorique nationale nées après les Vêpres. Cette aspiration à l’autogouvernement qui se cachait derrière un discours nationaliste visait à vider le pouvoir central et à le transférer dans les mains des pouvoirs périphériques constituées par les classes dirigeantes locales. Une fois considérée la longue histoire de la culture politique sicilienne et de ses principales traditions, on saisit sous une lumière différente la ‘conquête’ du Statut autonomiste obtenu au lendemain de la deuxième guerre mondiale. Nous étudions aussi la faillite du modèle de développement industriel dans les soixante ans suivant l’approbation du Statut et de ses articles économiques riparazionistici, qui visent la réparation des dégâts historiques provoqués par l’État italien à travers des financements sans échéance prévue. L’analyse des enjeux du nationalisme et de l’autonomie dans l’histoire ancienne et plus récente de l’île permet de mettre en lumière un élément central du système politique sicilien : la violence en tant qu’instrument de gestion des tensions dérivant de l’administration des ressources économico-fiscales par les pouvoirs périphériques. L’histoire de la violence politique nous mène à enquêter sur certains aspects de l’origine de la mafia au XIXe siècle et de ses développements au long du XXe siècle
This dissertation focuses on Sicilian political culture and its history, particularly in connection with the concept of autonomy. It analyzes historical documents and literary texts that all bear traces of this political culture with its complex, unique, and shadowy character. The first articulations of autonomy in specifically ideological terms appear in the early forms of national rhetoric mobilized after the Sicilian Vespers. Within nationalist discourse, the aspiration for self-government remains inseparable from efforts to eliminate a central pole of power, displacing and distributing authority, transferring it instead to the hands of the local governing classes who form peripheral power nodes. When contextualized within the long history of Sicilian political culture and its main traditions, the so-called conquest of the Special Sicilian Statute granted at the end of the Second World War appears in a new light. This dissertation also examines the failure of the industrial model for development in the 60 years following the approval of the statute and its articles concerning the economic riparazionismo, which sought to provide reparation for the historic damage caused by the Italian state and its practice of allocating funding but not defining timetables. Analysis of the stakes that nationalism and autonomy put in play throughout the history of the island highlights the centerpiece of the Sicilian political system : the use of violence as an instrument to manage tensions caused by peripheral nodes of power administering economic and financial resources. The history of this political violence leads us to investigate certain aspects of the origins of the Mafia in the 19th century and of its development in the 20th century
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