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Pathological risk-propensity typifies Mafia members’ cognitive profile

Since the recruitment process, Italian Mafias impose on their members a strict code of conduct. These rigid rules regulate their private and public behavior, implying a total adhesion to the group’s values. Such juridical and social aspects substantially distinguish organized crime (OC) from ordinar...

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Autores principales: Salvato, Gerardo, Fiorina, Maria Laura, De Maio, Gabriele, Francescon, Elisa, Ovadia, Daniela, Bernardinelli, Luisa, Santosuosso, Amedeo, Paulesu, Eraldo, Bottini, Gabriella
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7244520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32444792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65486-z
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author Salvato, Gerardo
Fiorina, Maria Laura
De Maio, Gabriele
Francescon, Elisa
Ovadia, Daniela
Bernardinelli, Luisa
Santosuosso, Amedeo
Paulesu, Eraldo
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Fiorina, Maria Laura
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Francescon, Elisa
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description Since the recruitment process, Italian Mafias impose on their members a strict code of conduct. These rigid rules regulate their private and public behavior, implying a total adhesion to the group’s values. Such juridical and social aspects substantially distinguish organized crime (OC) from ordinary crime. It is still unknown whether these two categories of offenders also show distinctive cognitive traits. Here we investigated the frontal lobe cognitive functions of 50 OC prisoners from the Mafia and 50 non-OC prisoners based on the performance of 50 non-prisoner controls. We found that OC members were more likely to show pathological risk-propensity than non-OC prisoners. We interpret this finding as the result of the internal dynamics of Mafia groups. OC is a worldwide threat, and the identification of cognitive traits behind criminal behavior will help in devising focused prevention policies.
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spelling pubmed-72445202020-05-30 Pathological risk-propensity typifies Mafia members’ cognitive profile Salvato, Gerardo Fiorina, Maria Laura De Maio, Gabriele Francescon, Elisa Ovadia, Daniela Bernardinelli, Luisa Santosuosso, Amedeo Paulesu, Eraldo Bottini, Gabriella Sci Rep Article Since the recruitment process, Italian Mafias impose on their members a strict code of conduct. These rigid rules regulate their private and public behavior, implying a total adhesion to the group’s values. Such juridical and social aspects substantially distinguish organized crime (OC) from ordinary crime. It is still unknown whether these two categories of offenders also show distinctive cognitive traits. Here we investigated the frontal lobe cognitive functions of 50 OC prisoners from the Mafia and 50 non-OC prisoners based on the performance of 50 non-prisoner controls. We found that OC members were more likely to show pathological risk-propensity than non-OC prisoners. We interpret this finding as the result of the internal dynamics of Mafia groups. OC is a worldwide threat, and the identification of cognitive traits behind criminal behavior will help in devising focused prevention policies. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7244520/ /pubmed/32444792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65486-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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