Loan-sharking in a time of crisis: lessons from Rome’s illegal credit market

One of the consequences of Italy’s on-going financial crisis has been rising civil society activism and media attention to the growing phenomenon of families and small businesses becoming indebted to illegal moneylenders. Much of the public discourse focuses on indications that major organized crime...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marinaro, Isabella Clough (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 26 May 2016
In: Trends in organized crime
Year: 2017, Volume: 20, Issue: 1-2, Pages: [196]-215
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Usury
Loan-shark
Illegal lending
Illegal credit
Rome
Italy
Economic Crisis