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The Italian state's fight against Cosa Nostra and Camorra
Veselý, Tomáš ; Mejstřík, Martin (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The Italian state's fight against Cosa Nostra and Camorra" deals with the Italian state's response to the activities of the mafia organizations Cosa Nostra and Camorra. The thesis focuses mainly on the period from the late 1980s to the present day. From the 1980s onwards, the Italian state began to enforce major steps in anti-mafia legislation, creating a more comprehensive legislative framework to limit the power and influence of the Italian mafia. The fight against the Italian mafia became one of the priorities of the governments at that time. However, due to the different state approach to the two organizations and their characteristics, such as their internal structure or their relationship with the Italian state, the Italian state was not able to achieve comparable results. The aim of this thesis will be to use a comparative analysis to evaluate data on the success of anti-mafia measures and the level of involvement of the Italian state in the fight against the two organizations, in order to reveal the reasons for the different results achieved by the Italian state since the late 1980s. Thanks to the data collected, the thesis also outlines possible hypotheses for the future development of the fight against the two organizations. The thesis concludes by answering the...
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Mafia and Italian Politics
Šámal, Pavel ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
This final thesis attempts to provide a closer ovierview of specific features of the Italian political arena, which is a mutual penetration of one sphere of organized crime - mafia and politics. The first part of this thesis defines the theoretical structure of the mafia phenomenon and essays to contextualize it within organized crime. The second part begins with an excoursion into the history of the mafia in Sicily from its beginings in the 19th century until the 1970s. The deeper analysis is then devoted to the crucial period of the 1980s and 1990s. The final part of the thesis examines the period of bomb attacks (1992-1993) through the aspect of new investigations. Key words: mafia, Cosa Nostra, politics, Italy, Palermo, organized crime.
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Organized crime
Šembera, Kryštof ; Žák, Květoslav (advisor) ; Spirit, Michal (referee)
This work is about organized crime in Italy, specifically in Sicily. It focuses on it's history and connects it with social, economic and political development of the island as well as Italy itself. In the first chapter I describe the birth of organized crime in Sicily and it's evolution until the end of the 20th century. The second chapter is about the people who fought against organized crime throughout the history. In the third chapter I focus on organized crime in the 21st century and I also describe other illegal organizations that are active in Italy today.
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