RT Article
T1 What's in a name?: shifting identities of traditional organized crime in Canada in the transnational fight against the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta
JF Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
VO 60
IS 4
SP 427
OP 454
A1 Sergi, Anna
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1584931124
AB The Italian antimafia authorities have warned Canadian law enforcement about the risks and the growing concerns for the infiltration of clans of the Calabrian mafia, known as 'ndrangheta, in Eastern Canada. The alarm linked to the rise of the 'ndrangheta challenges the paradigms of traditional organized crime in Canada, because the 'ndrangheta is presented as traditional but also innovative and more pervasive than other mafia-type groups. Through access to confidential investigations and interviews of key specialist law enforcement teams in Toronto and Montreal, this article investigates today's institutional perception of mafia – the 'ndrangheta in particular – in Canada when compared to Italian conceptualizations. I will argue that the changes in narratives in Canada can be read in relation to changes in the Italian identity in the country, moving towards regionalization and specialist knowledge of ethnic differences.
K1 Mafia
K1 Italian organized crime
K1 Policing
K1 Mafia migration
K1 Italian migration
K1 Organized crime
K1 Ndrangheta
K1 Organisierte Kriminalität
K1 Transnationale Kriminalität
DO 10.3138/cjccj.2017-0052.r1