Italian mobsters who commit violent crimes in groups more likely to re-offend: study
You don’t have to be a wise guy to come to these conclusions.
A new research foun♒d that Italian mobsters who previously committed violent crimes in groups were more likely to re-offend.
Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and Università Cattolica del Sac🍌ro Cuore and Transcrime in Italy broke omerta by analyzing data of 9,819 Italians convicted of organized crime.
The paper’s authors focused on violent crimes committed between 1964 and 2016.
Mafioso who engaged in group violence were 14.2% more likely to bust he🍨ads again, compared to just 4.9% for made ꦕmen who roughed up people solo, the researchers found.
Being a part of an organized criminal syndicate or street gang “may favor a persistent, dynamic diffusion or responsibility” that drives people to ඣcommit violent acts together in the future, according to the꧒ study.
“They may know it’s morally wrong but it’s easier to justify when everyone is doing the same – and we see an impact of the꧙se rationalizations on future offending behavior too,” study author Cecilia Meneghini, who compared the dynamics of how violence spreads throughout the Mafia to “a contagion.”
“It’s easy to be a tough guy when you’ve got a group of guys [around you] — they’re like hyenas, they only got balls when there’s a group,” former Gambino associate John Alite told The Post.
“It o𝐆nly takes one guy’s bad decision and the other guys jump in with him,” he said, adding, “Without each other, t💜hey are impotent.”
