You don’t have to be a smart guy to come to this conclusion.
A new research paper finds that Italian mobsters who have previously committed violent crimes in groups are more likely to reoffend.
Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Transcrime in Italy broke the omerta by analyzing data on 9,819 Italians convicted of organized crime.
The paper’s authors focused on violent crimes committed between 1964 and 2016.
Mafioso who engage in gang violence are 14.2% more likely to reoffend, compared to just 4.9% for mafiosos who rough up people solo, the researchers found.
Being part of an organized crime syndicate or a street gang “may favor a sustained, dynamic diffusion or responsibility” that prompts people to commit violent acts together in the future, according to the study.
A new study has found that Italian mobsters who have previously committed violent crimes in groups are more likely to reoffend. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Researchers analyzed data on 9,819 Italians convicted of organized crime. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Mafioso who engage in gang violence are 14.2% more likely to reoffend. Photo of Savoy/courtesy of the Everett Collection
“They may know it’s morally wrong but it’s easier to justify it when everyone is doing the same thing – and we see the effect of this rationalization on future offending behavior as well,” said study author Cecilia Meneghini, who compared the dynamics of how violence spreads to whole world. Mafia to “contagion.”
“It’s easy to be a strong man when you have a group of men [around you] — they’re like hyenas, they only get the ball when there’s a group,” former Gambino associate John Alite told The Post.
“It just takes one man’s bad decision and another man joins in,” he said, adding, “Without each other, they’re impotent.”
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