Social control agents and the evolving definition of wrongdoing: the case of the gray area around the Mafia
In this paper, we investigate the process by which social control agents define wrongdoing over time and the principles they employ in drawing the boundary between right and wrong. We empirically examine how Italian state actors sought over four decades to categorize behaviors in the so-called “gray...
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Emerald Publishing
2023
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