Full Description
Despite a rapidly changing economic and legal landscape, Italian mafias remain prominent actors in the global criminal underworld. This book provides an extensive and up-to-date view of how they adapt to shifting economic opportunities and intensifying legal and civic backlash.
Surveying the main Italian mafias active today - Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra and the Sacra Corona Unita - the contributors provide a broad overview of key themes and research findings, offering new theoretical and methodological lenses for analysing how Italy's four native mafias have adapted to recent challenges. Investigating their global and national impact, this book analyses new insights into the operations and trajectories of Italian mafias in the 21st century.
Employing fresh empirical material, this book is essential reading for students of Italian studies at all levels, as well as those of criminology, security, political science, sociology and organised crime studies. Policy-makers and practitioners tackling organised crime will also benefit from this book's critical insight into the history, operation and pathways of Italian mafias today.
Contributors include: F. Allum, L. Brancaccio, D. Bright, E. Ciconte, I. Clough Marinaro, A. Colletti, G. Corica, J. Dagnes, N. Dalla Chiesa, A. Dino, D. Donatiello, M. Giuditta Borselli, A. La Spina, V. Martone, M. Massari, R. Merlino, V. Mete, S. Sberna, R. Sciarrone, L. Storti, A. Vannucci
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction: Thinking about Italian mafias today
Felia Allum, Isabella Clough Marinaro and Rocco Sciarrone
Part I MAFIAS IN TRADITIONAL TERRITORIES
2. Waiting for a new leader: Eras and transitions in Cosa Nostra
Alessandra Dino
3. The Camorras in Naples and Campania: Business, groups and families
Luciano Brancaccio and Vittorio Martone
4. 'Ndrangheta: A (post-)modern mafia with ancient roots
Enzo Ciconte
5. The Sacra Corona Unita: The birth and decline of the fourth mafia?
Monica Massari
Part II MAFIAS BETWEEN POLITICS, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
6. The economic dimension of mafias, social capital and the 'grey area'
Rocco Sciarrone
7. Mafias and political corruption in Italy
Salvatore Sberna and Alberto Vannucci
8. The welfare system of Italian mafias
Alessandro Colletti
9. Pizzini: Sicilian mafia culture between continuity and change
Rossella Merlino
Part III MAFIAS IN NON-TRADITIONAL TERRITORIES
10. Lombardy, the long march of the 'Ndrangheta: Old history and new stories
Nando dalla Chiesa
11. Mafias in Emilia Romagna
Graziana Corica and Vittorio Mete
12. Rome 'open city'? Camorra expansions into the Italian capital
Isabella Clough Marinaro and Maria Giuditta Borselli
13. Italian mafias across Europe
Joselle Dagnes, Davide Donatiello and Luca Storti
14. Italian mafias in Australia: The dominance of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta
Felia Allum and David Bright
15. The anti-mafia fight in Italy and abroad
Antonio La Spina
Bibliography
Index
