SOLUTION POSSIBILITIES IN CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGY:
A PHD SUBPROJECT ON EDUCATION INTO SOCIOCULTURAL IMPACTS OF THE SICILIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
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Dániel Vágó*
*PhD program in Studies on Organized Crime, University of Milan (La Statale),
Milan, Italy
daniel.vago@unimi.it
Abstract: This paper stands as a call for the emerging researchers of the Alpine-Adriatic region, as well as a manifestation of a sub-project within the framework of a PhD thesis, since the idea emerged from the combination of empirical observations as a lecturer and the theoretical research as a PhD candidate. The part, which is connected to the aforementioned thesis reveals that how a sort of “criminal toolkit” and myth-making rhetorics arm mafia(s), and mafia-type organizations, up to be able to gain legitimacy and justification from the society, through the imitation of certain customary behavioral patterns or the transplantion of parodistic religious processes. Disguising their presence in the illegal market and the
camouflage of moral purity relativize and normalize criminal activities by giving them a certain patina. The part, which is connected to empirical observations theorize how the conceptual boundary in the civiccriminal axis is blurring as slowly diverts general attention from serious crimes and, beyond intimidation, provokes law-abiding citizens to refuses cooperation with the authorities. Thus, solution possibilities in crime prevention strategy are the fact-finding education and the creation of strong counter-narratives to mafia-rhetorics.
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