How Mafias Migrate: The Case of the 'Ndrangheta in Northern Italy | Law & Society Review | Find Articles at BNET

How Mafias Migrate: The Case of the 'Ndrangheta in Northern Italy | Law & Society Review | Find Articles at BNET

The features of a local economy that make it ripe for a Mafia-type organization to transplant into it:

• significant sectors of the economy unprotected by the state which therefore demand criminal protection.
• a local rather than an export orientation.