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Mafia and organised crime in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of mafia and organised crime appears in 18,294 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1991, with 911 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 39 interventions1949: 34 interventions1950: 13 interventions1951: 46 interventions1952: 13 interventions1953: 9 interventions1954: 30 interventions1955: 26 interventions1956: 24 interventions1957: 8 interventions1958: 28 interventions1959: 6 interventions1960: 12 interventions1961: 15 interventions1962: 97 interventions1963: 50 interventions1964: 57 interventions1965: 31 interventions1966: 62 interventions1967: 66 interventions1968: 33 interventions1969: 56 interventions1970: 86 interventions1971: 78 interventions1972: 25 interventions1973: 30 interventions1974: 53 interventions1975: 65 interventions1976: 48 interventions1977: 92 interventions1978: 93 interventions1979: 121 interventions1980: 364 interventions1981: 249 interventions1982: 483 interventions1983: 451 interventions1984: 495 interventions1985: 371 interventions1986: 391 interventions1987: 287 interventions1988: 448 interventions1989: 471 interventions1990: 738 interventions1991: 911 interventions1992: 722 interventions1993: 364 interventions1994: 280 interventions1995: 288 interventions1996: 251 interventions1997: 412 interventions1998: 477 interventions1999: 342 interventions2000: 363 interventions2001: 270 interventions2002: 259 interventions2003: 219 interventions2004: 184 interventions2005: 259 interventions2006: 407 interventions2007: 259 interventions2008: 382 interventions2009: 528 interventions2010: 571 interventions2011: 329 interventions2012: 389 interventions2013: 446 interventions2014: 645 interventions2015: 567 interventions2016: 311 interventions2017: 246 interventions2018: 320 interventions2019: 404 interventions2020: 303 interventions2021: 224 interventions2022: 168 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning mafia and organised crime in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
MAURO MELLINIRadicali221
MARIO TASSONEDemocrazia Cristiana215
FRANCO PIROPartito Socialista Italiano135
MARCO BOATORadicali121
FRANCESCO BARBATOItalia dei Valori106
LUCIANO VIOLANTEPartito Comunista Italiano92
RAFFAELE VALENSISEMovimento Sociale Italiano80
FRANCO FRANCHIMovimento Sociale Italiano72
MARCO PANNELLARadicali71
ALDO RIZZOPartito Comunista Italiano71

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Partito Democratico1,306
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà1,124
Movimento 5 Stelle1,027
L'Ulivo956
Partito Comunista Italiano949
Movimento Sociale Italiano755
Lega Nord743
Democrazia Cristiana733
Radicali661
Partito Socialista Italiano473

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with mafia OR mafioso OR camorra OR ndrangheta OR "cosa nostra" OR "criminalità organizzata". Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

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