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    The Top-down Instruments for Governing Crime: the Italian Experience between Administrative Orders and Security Pacts (2007-2009)

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    This article focuses on the use of administrative orders and Security Pacts in Italy between 2007 and 2009, both of them considered as top-down instruments used by the public authorities for governing crime at urban and local level. The instrument known as Security Pacts was introduced in Italy on March 20th, 2007, with the Law No 296/2006, art. 1 par. 439 (2007 Financial Act). Prefects were granted the power to undersign agreements with the elected local authorities, for the implementation of coordinated surveillance territorial plans and the strengthening of the logistic, instrumental and financial collaboration between the Government and the above local authorities. In the same years, the city mayors were also allowed by the Legislative Decree No 267/2000, art. 54 (as amended by Decree-Law No 92/2008 and converted into Law No 125/2008) to address a wide range of urban security issues using the so-called administrative orders, in order to prevent and fight serious hazards threatening public safety. This paper will then explore the spread, the geographical distribution, the content and the difference among the aforementioned practices. By definition, Pacts are in fact used for “negotiation” and “accommodation” between possibly divergent interests, in a “long term bargaining game”, while the municipal orders are instead a more “direct”, “urgent”, and “for use in emergency” instrument in the hands of the Mayor as governmental official. It is therefore questionable whether those two top-down instruments are entirely incompatible and/or mutually exclusive, or vice versa they were considered by public administrations as compatible and convergent, despite the conditions referred to above. In the conclusion, this paper will also try to analyze the level of uniformity and mimetic isomorphism achieved by the two different top-down instruments, and their impact on local public policies in Italy for the indicated period

    La politica di sicurezza urbana in Italia. L'esperienza dei patti per la sicurezza nel triennio 2007-2009.

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    This article focuses on the evolution of urban security policy in Italy. The aim is to depict the range of morphological and dynamic aspects of this policy empirically. It seeks to outline both the original and persistent governmental pattern which seems to have influenced the implementation of the (inter)organizational models between 1994-2007. The adoption in 2007 of «Security Pacts» is identified as a turning point which served as a means to redefine the original governance. Our investigation is an attempt to show if, and to what extent, security policy networking activities were indeed adopt-ed by administration between 2007-2009. In order to accomplish this a Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) and a Social Network Analysis (SNA) was conducted of the actions undertaken by administrations between 2007-2009

    La politica di sicurezza urbana. Il caso italiano (1994-2009)

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    Il volume analizza l'evoluzione diacronica della politica di sicurezza urbana in Italia nel periodo compreso fra il 1994 e il 2009, facendo ingresso entro un campo d'indagine ampiamente frequentato dalla sociologia e dalla criminologia, ma finora trascurato, nel nostro Paese, dai policy studies. L'obiettivo di ricostruire empiricamente gli aspetti morfologici e dinamici della politica risponde all'esigenza di conoscere gli esiti delle recenti esperienze di governance, mediante le quali si è provveduto a ridefinire con formule pattizie l'identità degli attori che compongono il policy network, l'assetto dei poteri formali e le regole del gioco di questa importante politica pubblica. La ricerca, grazie all'ausilio di metodi d'indagine quantitativi e qualitativi, si propone di spiegare la varianza degli esiti della policy, osservando gli effetti di variabili indipendenti: di livello macro (la forza e le resistenze inerziali del modello organizzativo e normativo originario, in chiave comparata), di livello meso (l'isomorfismo istituzionale dei "patti per la sicurezza" siglati in Italia dalle prefetture in accordo con gli enti locali nell'anno 2007) e di livello micro (l'effettiva implementazione e l'efficacia degli strumenti pattizi, con particolare riguardo ai casi di Bologna, Cagliari, Catania e Genova)
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