‘Mastaans’ and the Market for Social Protection Exploring Mafia Groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh
‘Mastaans’ and the Market for Social Protection Exploring Mafia Groups in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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“Mastaans”和社会保护市场探索孟加拉国达卡的黑手党组织
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2017
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Sally Atkinson
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Sally Atkinson
本文介绍了孟加拉国黑手党集团的研究。根据22名街头儿童的观点和经验，对刑事司法从业人员、非政府组织工作人员和社区成员的80次采访，以及对刑事司法系统3年多的参与观察，本文认为“mastaans”：孟加拉国黑手党团体。本文从保护理论和行为理论两个方面，提出了黑社会的社会保障理论。这篇文章考虑了mastaan团体的社交网络、他们的流行程度、他们在哪里活动、劳动分工、他们所犯的罪行以及他们与政治家和警察的联系。该文件表明，mastaans与国家的腐败成员结盟，他们提供服务，解决纠纷，进行敲诈勒索并进行广泛的犯罪活动，其中大部分依赖于他们对暴力的垄断来保护他们的非法产业。该文件表明，第一次，黑手党在孟加拉国运作，并从成人和儿童收集的数据，其中的影响进行了讨论。
This paper presents a study of mafia groups in Bangladesh. Drawing on the views and experiences of 22 street children, 80 interviews with criminal justice practitioners, NGO workers and community members and over 3 years of participant observation of the criminal justice system, the paper considers the ‘mastaans’: Bangladeshi mafia groups. The article draws on both theories of protection and behaviour to develop a social protection theory of the mafia. The article considers the social networks of mastaan groups, their prevalence, where they operate, divisions of labour, the crimes that they commit and the associations that they have with politicians and the police. The paper demonstrates that mastaans work in alliance with corrupt members of the state and they provide access to services, resolve disputes, commit extortion and carry out a wide array of criminal activity, much of which relies on their monopolisation of violence to protect their illegal industries. The paper demonstrates—for the first time—that mafias operate in Bangladesh and draws on data gathered from both adults and children, the implications of which are discussed.