Corruption is often intertwined with international organized crime and is facilitated by money
laundering. Self-reinforcing spirals of corruption occur when organized crime infiltrates state …

A series of authored and edited monographs that utilize quantitative and computational
methods to model, analyze and interpret large-scale social phenomena. Titles within the …

This special issue of Global Crime is devoted to estimation of the proceeds of crime and
mafia revenues in Italy. The articles in this special issue have been inspired by a study …

La ricerca è stata svolta grazie a un finanziamento della Provincia Regionale di Catania,
denominata dal 2014 “Libero Consorzio Comunale”, per iniziativa del suo Commissario …

Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically
combat protection rackets using legal strategies that target the racketeers with legislation …

'Addiopizzo'(Goodbye protection money) is a grassroots anti-mafia movement based in
Palermo that stresses the individual consumer's responsibility for maintaining the Sicilian …

Extortion and usury: the distorting impact of illegal activities of camorra clans on the regional
economy. Mafia or camorra association is the matrix in which extortion is brought forth …

In this work, we assess the role of a specific type of organized crime in influencing choices
on where living within the city territory, and consequently, volatility in house prices. More …

Extortion as a crime has long attracted the interest of scholars, and much effort has been put
into coining a precise definition that would allow distinguishing it from other similar predatory …

This paper examines if and what there is to learn for Business Administration scholars about
criminal organizations to stimulate further research. This is done, by undertaking a cross …