Elite-interviewing in Organised Crime Research: The Case of Antimafia Magistrates
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elite interviewing, antimafia magistrates, organised crime, qualitative methodology, mafiasAbstract
This article deals with the methodological challenges of interviewing antimafia magistrates (AMs). On the ground of author’s fieldwork experience and elite-interviewing literature, it deals with key procedural questions — sampling, access, and the conduct of the interview —, and addresses the thorny issue related to AMs dual epistemic register – they are repository both of factual evidence about the mafia and of institutional representation influenced by the so-called “thought of State”.
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