Police forces and and the repression of crime in post-war Milan in the-papers of the Allied Control Commission

Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Luigi Vergallo
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/143
Language Italian Pages 25 P. 97-121 File size 561 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2014-143004
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The author aims primarily at showing the importance of some archival sources - in-particular the papers of the Allied Control Commission - for the historical study of crime-in the working-class neighbourhoods of Milan in the yearts after Worl War II. The-essay highlights the existence of a peculiar triangular relationship between petty criminals,-police force and the population at large, and of a separation, though not a clear cut one, between the world of crime and law-abiding citizens. The traditional practices-of "social surgery" aimed at dividing productive classe from marginalised and asocial-elements seem to be at work at this juncture too, but the abnormal size of the ‘dangerous-classes cuts through class borders and even institutional spheres.-

Keywords: Milan, police, crime, neighborhoods, working classes, solidarity

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Luigi Vergallo, Polizie e contrasto alla criminalità nel dopoguerra a Milano nelle carte dell’Allied Control Commission ai National Archives II di College Park in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 143/2014, pp 97-121, DOI: 10.3280/SS2014-143004