This study complements existing literature on the mobility of criminal groups (mainly based
on country case studies) with the first systematic assessment of the worldwide activities of …

A common claim is that mafia families arrange marriages strategically to seal alliances,
cement partnerships and enhance cohesion. However, this claim is mainly based on …

We develop new transaction management (TRM) proxies, to find empirical evidence of the
strategic management of accounting transactions, aiming to carry out money laundering …

We exploit staggered municipality-level antimafia enforcement actions in Italy over the 1995–
2015 period to study how the presence of organized crime affects firms. Following …

Objectives: This study tests whether mafias, as archetypical criminal organizations that exert
control over local communities, protect their territories against ordinary criminality. Our …

Abstract Italian mafias—Cosa Nostra, Camorra, and 'Ndrangheta—are long-lived, resilient
organizations that have evolved to adapt to environmental changes. They have different …

This paper explores the phenomenon of the 'ndrangheta–a criminal organisation from
Calabria, South of Italy and allegedly the most powerful among the Italian mafias–through its …

Considering the steady and rapid growth of product counterfeiting and the damage it causes
to society, it is important for criminology and criminal justice scholars to assist criminal justice …

Despite growing interest in organized crime's infiltration of the legal economy, research to
date has paid little attention to the investments of criminal organizations in real estate. Using …

Project IARM develops an exploratory methodology for assessing the risk of money
laundering (ML). In particular, it develops a composite indicator of money laundering risk:• at …