1st Edition

Mafia-type Organisations and Extortion in Italy The Camorra in Campania

Edited By Giacomo Di Gennaro, Antonio La Spina Copyright 2017
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Mafia-type organizations generate several distorting effects on the economy. In Italy their presence is endemic, and not only in Southern regions such as Sicily, Campania or Calabria. Such organizations endure the fierce and continuous pressure exerted by Italian anti-mafia policy, maybe the most articulate and effective such policy in the world. Nevertheless, they have survived by submerging,... Read more

Introduction – The costs of illegality: a research programme Giacomo Di Gennaro and Antonio La Spina

1. Racketeering in Campania: how clans have adapted and how the extortion phenomenon is perceived Giacomo Di Gennaro

2. The Camorra and protection rackets: the cost to business Giovanni Frazzica, Maurizio Lisciandra, Valentina Punzo and Attilio Scaglione

3. Cosa Nostra and Camorra: illegal activities and organisational structures Attilio Scaglione

4. Proposal for a computer-assisted analysis of lawful interceptions of communication Giovanni Frazzica

5. The delocalisation of mafia organisations and the construction of a European law against organised crime Antonio Balsamo

Biography

Giacomo Di Gennaro is Professor of Sociology and Planning and Management of Social Policies, as well as Director of the Master’s Degree in ‘Criminology and Criminal Law: Criminal and Policy Analysis for Urban Security’, at Federico II University, Naples, Italy.

Antonio La Spina is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at LUISS, Rome, Italy, where he is Co-director of the Master’s Degree in ‘Policies against Corruption and Organized Crime’. He is also a consultant of the Italian Parliamentary Antimafia Commission.