RT Article
T1 Life-Course Criminal Trajectories of Mafia Members
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 1
SP 111
OP 141
A1 Campedelli, Gian Maria
A1 Calderoni, Francesco
A1 Comunale, Tommaso
A1 Meneghini, Cecilia
A2 Calderoni, Francesco
A2 Comunale, Tommaso
A2 Meneghini, Cecilia
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745554726
AB Through a novel data set comprising the criminal records of 11,138 convicted mafia offenders, we compute criminal career parameters and trajectories through group-based trajectory modeling. Mafia offenders report prolific and persistent careers (16.1 crimes over 16.5 years on average), with five distinct trajectories (low frequency, high frequency, early starter, moderate persistence, high persistence). While showing some similarities with general offenders, the trajectories of mafia offenders also exhibit significant differences, with several groups offending well into their middle and late adulthood, notwithstanding intense criminal justice sanctions. These patterns suggest that several mafia offenders are life-course persisters and career criminals and that the involvement in the mafias is a negative turning point extending the criminal careers beyond those observed in general offenders.
K1 Criminal Careers
K1 Developmental trajectories
K1 Life Course
K1 Organized Crime
DO 10.1177/0011128719860834