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  • Women of the Mafia

    Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra

    by Felia Allum ...
    Winner of the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime Book AwardWomen of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit it. It tells their life stories and unpacks the gender dynamics by examining their participation as active agents in the organization as leaders, managers, foot soldiers, and enablers. Felia ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Invisible Camorra

    Neapolitan Crime Families across Europe

    by Felia Allum ...
    The organized crime group that dominates much of the socioeconomic life of contemporary Naples, the Camorra, is organized by kin and geography, and it is notoriously the most violent, fractious, and disorganized mafia in Italy. The Camorra controls local extortion rackets, the drug and counterfeit trades, and other legal and illicit activities as well as wielding substantial political influence ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen

    The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-War Naples Vol 11

    by Felia Allum ...
    "This work presents a detailed study of the political role of a criminal organization, the Neapolitan Camorra, in its historical context, that of Naples over the last fifty years. In Campania, until 1991, the population tacitly accepted the relationship between the Camorra and the local political elite (based on the exchange of votes for state contracts and protection), and because of the lack of ... Read more

    Was $107.17 CAD Now $96.18 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime

    Edited by Felia Allum, Stan Gilmour ...
    This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a challenge for years to come.Updated to reflect the changing world environment, the book includes new chapters on issues such as criminal network analysis, ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe

    Discarded Footnotes

    by Felia Allum, Anna Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
    This book presents a unique series of graphic narratives which offer a new way to recount the lived experiences and life stories of women involved in transnational organised crime groups, from victims to perpetrators.Based on ethnographic interviews, and police files, academic Felia Allum and artist Anna Mitchell together seek to tell individual stories while also contributing to broader ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Defining and Defying Organised Crime

    Discourse, Perceptions and Reality

    Edited by Felia Allum, Francesca Longo, Daniela Irrera, Panos Kostakos ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the nature of this threat. By analysing the existing, official institutional discourse on organized crime it examines whether or not it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality of organized crime.The book first part of ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy

    Edited by Felia Allum, Renate Siebert ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as ... Read more

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  • From Clans to Co-ops

    Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

    by Theodoros Rakopoulos ...
    Series Book 4 - The Human Economy
    From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives operating on land confiscated from mafiosi in Sicily, a project that the state hails as arguably the greatest symbolic victory over the mafia in Italian history. Rakopoulos’s ethnographic focus is on access to resources, divisions of labor, ideologies of community and food, and ... Read more

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  • Organized Crime

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Georgios A Antonopoulos, Georgios Papanicolaou ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighbourhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. Policymakers, law enforcement, and the media rarely fail to bring up the issue when discussing the nature and seriousness of contemporary criminal threats, and the appropriate responses towards them. ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • Mafia and Antimafia

    A Brief History

    by Umberto Santino ...
    The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's leading mafia experts, here provides a new perspective on the mafia: as a polymorphic organization which encompasses crime, the accumulation of corruptly acquired wealth and power, the cultural code of omerta and consensus. Exploring the movements which strive to fight ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Reversible Destiny

    Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo

    by Peter T. Schneider, Jane Schneider ...
    Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo, this book suggests lessons regarding secretive organized crime: its capacity to reproduce a subculture of violence through time, its acquisition ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD