ORGANIZED CRIME, MAFIA AND CORRUPTION

The Comparison of Organized Crime and the Mafia points out some strategic assets of mafia structures that have to be understood by analyzing the evolution of the different Italian mafias. The mafia economic and financial ecosystem is characterized by a “money for-money” cycle consisting of several sometimes legal - depending on the Countries in which mafia organizations choose to create business – strategies to accumulate money from illegal activities. This consolidates crimes, politics, and economy into a “Money for Money” system polluting the public policies especially at local level. The joint of interests and resources of organized crime groups, mafia groups, white collar criminals and corrupted civil servants evolves in a strongly interconnected brand-new “Jelly System” which cultural roots can be found in the ancient Roman practice of “Do Us Des”. Twenty years ago the great “Clean Hands” case caused the break-up of whole Italian politics. Nowadays, the impact of financial crisis in Italy and the shadow of mafia powers are favoring the rise of many corruption scandals and crimes all over the Country.