RT Article
T1 Criminal Careers Prior to Recruitment into Italian Organized Crime
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 69
IS 11
SP 2243
OP 2273
A1 Meneghini, Cecilia
A2 Campedelli, Gian Maria
A2 Calderoni, Francesco
A2 Comunale, Tommaso
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/186915486X
AB Despite growing evidence about heterogeneous pathways leading individuals into organized crime, there is limited knowledge about the differences in the criminal career between individuals who entered criminal organizations in their youth and those who joined at an older age. This study assesses the differences between early and late recruits in the Italian mafias through logistic regressions considering several criminal career parameters computed on the period prior to recruitment. Results show that recruitment in the mafias is far from a homogenous process. Early recruits report an early criminal onset, lower educational attainment, more serious offenses within a shorter time-span, and more frequent violent co-offending; late recruits show a later onset, more prolific and versatile?but less serious?offending.
K1 Criminal Careers
K1 Life-course criminology
K1 mafia
K1 Organized crime
K1 Recruitment
DO 10.1177/00111287211035994