Study of Civil Society and Criminal Justice in Palermo, Italy

该项目涉及对意大利西西里岛巴勒莫黑手党和反黑手党力量之间不断变化的关系进行长期研究的最后实地考察。整个项目跟踪了刑事司法对黑手党的打击，以及反黑手党公民的社会运动，以改变巴勒莫公民在社会环境中相互联系的方式。调查人员是两名文化人类学家，他们将重新采访居住在巴勒莫贫困社区的30个工人阶级家庭的成员，对刑事司法系统的成员进行后续采访，并在当地教堂和工会进行参与观察。有待检验的命题是，反黑手党运动的领导人往往属于受过教育的中产阶级，由于司法部门对黑手党活动（包括建筑业）的打击，导致建筑业工人阶级的工作岗位减少，因此失去了工人阶级公民的一些支持。一方面，公民对促进公民社会、政治透明度、非暴力、性别平等和法治的兴趣，另一方面，工人阶级家庭对有偿工作的需求以及这些工作与黑手党赞助的关系之间的紧张关系，将由研究人员进行调查。这项研究的总体教训是，公民社会的言论往往会忽视犯罪分子与新自由主义经济发展政策和项目之间的联系，也会忽视国家需要采取再分配措施这一普遍问题。

9902865SchneiderThis project involves the final fieldwork for a long term study of the changing relationship between the Mafia and antimafia forces in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The overall project has tracked the criminal justice crackdown on the Mafia, and the antimafia citizens' social movement to change the ways Palermo citizens relate to each other in social settings. The investigators, two cultural anthropologists, will re-interview members of a set of 30 working class families residing in Palermo's poor neighborhoods, conduct follow up interviews with members of the criminal justice system, and conduct participant observation in local churches and trade unions. The propositions to be tested are that the antimafia movement leaders, who tend to belong to the educated middle classes, have lost some support from working class citizens because of the loss of working class jobs in construction resulting from the judicial crackdown on the Mafia's activities, which included construction. The tension between on the one hand the citizens' interest in fostering civil society, political transparency, non-violence, gender equality and the rule of law, and on the other hand the working class families' need for paying jobs and the relation of these jobs to Mafia patronage, will be investigated by the researchers. The general lesson of this research is that civil society rhetoric often may ignore connections between criminal elements and neo-liberal economic development policies and projects, as well as ignore the general issue of the need for redistributive measures on the part of states.