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SUMMARY:The Mafia &amp\; Conspiracy - Professor Chris Duggan (University o
 f Reading) &amp\; Mr Dwight Smith
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CONTACT:Vickie Freer
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy & Democracy resea
 rch project on Tuesday\, 29th April at 5pm at the Alison Richard Building 
 (Sidgwick Site) when Mr Dwight Smith Jr will speak about ‘The Mafia & Co
 nspiracy’. Mr Smith’s paper will explore how the idea of the mafia and
  conspiracy emerged in America\, developed and became entangled in very di
 fferent contexts.\n\nMr Smith will describe the ideas\, experiences\, and 
 events through which his book\, ‘The Mafia Mystique’ (1975)\, took sha
 pe\; the consequences of those events that have led to contemporary public
  understanding and use of ‘Mafia’ in the United States\; and the conse
 quences in a democracy of strategies that were developed for organized cri
 me control.\n\nThe event will be followed by a wine reception.\n\nMr Dwigh
 t Smith Jr holds a Bachelors Degree in Government from Yale University and
  a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University.  He w
 rote ‘The Mafia Mystique’ (Basic Books\, and Hutchinson & Co.\, 1975)\
 , which examines the role played by the ‘Mafia’ label\, from its emerg
 ence in 1890\, in developing public opinion and government policy towards 
 organized crime in the United States.  He is now retired and lives with hi
 s wife in Slingerlands\, New York.\n
LOCATION:CRASSH Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9D
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