CLANURILE ŢIGĂNEŞTI ŞI CRIMINALITATEA ORGANIZATĂ, REALITĂŢI ŞI LEGENDE

Abstract:

Gypsies / Rroma in Romania have been a subject of great international public attention for the last 30 years and the problem of gypsy clans and organized crime is an old one, but at the same time very actual. Crime and organized crime are not ethnic, but they highlight certain specificities. In particular, in the context of the pandemic with the Covid-19 virus, in Romania this issue returned spectacularly in attention, with the return from abroad of the members of the gypsy clans. In this context, the episode of the assassination in Bucharest of the head of the Duduian s clan, in August 2020, should be brought to attention. Gypsy clans are an international reality, not only Romanian, and historical, sociological and anthropological research shows that organizing on clans is a specificity of the culture and civilization of Gypsies / Rroma. If until the early 1990s, due to the rigidity of the borders, the gypsy clans were somewhat more firmly defined in the national space, today they are par excellence in the international movement. We will present, sketched, a conceptual-theoretical construction on the foundation, causality and dynamics of this phenomenon, a summary situation of the current reality of gypsy clans in / from Romania and an estimate of the implications and perspectives of the phenomenon, in national and international context.

Keywords:

gipsy clans, social-antropological explanations, infractionality, organized crime, realities and legends.