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Morals of legitimacy in Naples: streetwise about legality, semi-legality and crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Italo Pardo
Italo Pardo
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University of Kent(Canterbury).
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Abstract

This article investigates the relationship of ordinary Neapolitans' morals of legitimacy to legality, semi-legality and crime. It argues that addressing this relationship empirically serves much more than the purpose of making suggestions to be translated into law or policy. Raising key questions about control, value and representation, the analysis brings to light the significance of individual morality and action to the complex relation of domination to authority in civil society.

Cet article étudie les relations que le monde napolitain entretient entre légitimité, légalité, semi-légalité et délinquance. Nous proposons de démontrer que l'étude empirique est plus éclairante que la discussion de propositions juridico-politiques. L'analyse, posant des questions-clés sur le contrôle social, les valeurs et les représentations, met en lumiére la signification de la morale individuelle et de l'action, au regard de la relation complexe entre domination et autorité légale dans la société civile.

Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die Beziehungen, die die neapolitanische Gesellschaft mit der Rechtmässikgkeit, dem Gesetz, der halben Gesetzlichkeit und dem Verbrechen unterhält. Er zeigt auf, daß ein empirischer Ansatz dienlicher ist als die Diskussion juristisch-politischer Vorschläge. Die Untersuchung, die Schüsselfragen in Sachen sozialer Kontrolle, Wertesystem und Vertretung stellt, hebt die Bedeutung der Individualmoral und Handlung hervor, was die komplexe Beziehung zwischen Herrschaft und legaler Autorität in der Zivilgesellschaft anbelangt.

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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , May 1995 , pp. 44 - 71
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1995

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