Old and new criminality: Territory, society and immigration in Italy

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The heated debate over the migration-crime link has mainly revolved around immigrants' crime rates. Conversely, the territorial relation between migration and crime has been the subject of only a few investigations. Italy represents an ideal context for studying such a territorial relation, since this country has been characterized by a tumultuous migratory flow, concerning however mainly the Central & Northern regions. The present paper results show that crime distribution in Italy displays two conflicting scenarios. The limited immigrant share in the South helped preserve a traditional picture of criminality, which has little to do with immigrants. Whereas in the Central & Northern provinces, a new criminality, associated with immigrants and their problems of integration, has emerged.

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Solivetti, L. M. (2014). Old and new criminality: Territory, society and immigration in Italy. In Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention: Essays in Honor of Ernesto U. Savona (Vol. 9783319018393, pp. 103–114). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01839-3_13

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