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Taking care of everyone’s business: interpreting Sicilian Mafia embedment through spatial network analysis

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  • Michele Battisti
  • Andrea Mario Lavezzi
  • Roberto Musotto

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Mafia-type organisations often have a strong geographical and cultural entrenchment in the territory they belong. However, their analysis as a spatially networked social structure is still missing. A combined socio-spatial network analysis is presented here, through the demise of a large police operation called Operazione Perseo in 2008. This approach is developed in two ways. At first, a visual representation of the social network of this large group of mafiosi embedded in a geographical space is presented. Three main salient territorial features of the network are thus highlighted. A high density of links in some neighbourhoods, as well as connections across different Mandamenti, the territorial units where Mafia families operate, and the correlation of links and socio-economic determinants, like the unemployment rates. Secondly, a spatial econometric analysis of centrality measures of the group is suggested here. Findings show a positive spatial correlation in the Eigenvalue centrality scores.

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  • Michele Battisti & Andrea Mario Lavezzi & Roberto Musotto, 2022. "Taking care of everyone’s business: interpreting Sicilian Mafia embedment through spatial network analysis," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(2), pages 171-192, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fglcxx:v:23:y:2022:i:2:p:171-192
    DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2022.2073440
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    1. Michele Battisti & Andrea Mario Lavezzi & Roberto Musotto, 2022. "Organizing Crime: an Empirical Analysis of the Sicilian Mafia," Papers 2205.02310, arXiv.org.

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