Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: a comparative analysis
Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: a comparative analysis
Despite the devastating short- and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, organized crime groups have emerged as prominent illegal suppliers of soil and sand. The proposed study focuses on an understudied research area at the intersection between organized crime and environmental crimes, and offers a trans-comparative study of illegal soil and sand mining conducted by Indian and Italian organized crime groups with two main objectives. First, a comparative analysis of the organizational mechanisms, operational practices, threat management, and supporting cultural, regulatory, and policing factors is conducted. Second, a discussion of how these groups reflect mainstream models and theories of organized crime is offered.
environmental crime, mafia, organized crime, sand mining, comparatiove analysis, document analysis
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Rege, Aunshul
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Lavorgna, Anita
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1 March 2017
Rege, Aunshul
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Lavorgna, Anita
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Rege, Aunshul and Lavorgna, Anita
(2017)
Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: a comparative analysis.
European Journal of Criminology, 14 (2), .
(doi:10.1177/1477370816649627).
Abstract
Despite the devastating short- and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, organized crime groups have emerged as prominent illegal suppliers of soil and sand. The proposed study focuses on an understudied research area at the intersection between organized crime and environmental crimes, and offers a trans-comparative study of illegal soil and sand mining conducted by Indian and Italian organized crime groups with two main objectives. First, a comparative analysis of the organizational mechanisms, operational practices, threat management, and supporting cultural, regulatory, and policing factors is conducted. Second, a discussion of how these groups reflect mainstream models and theories of organized crime is offered.
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Rege Lavorgna 2016
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 March 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 May 2016
Published date: 1 March 2017
Keywords:
environmental crime, mafia, organized crime, sand mining, comparatiove analysis, document analysis
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Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology
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Local EPrints ID: 390161
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/390161
ISSN: 1477-3708
PURE UUID: 4ac0fd55-4f08-499e-b29d-fee03296a3a0
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