Anna Sergi

The ‘ndrangheta is one of wealthiest and most powerful criminal organizations today. Combining autobiography, travel ethnography, memoir, and investigative journalism, this book provides a global outlook on the ‘ndrangheta, taking the reader to small villages and locations in Italy and in different countries around the world.

'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys

Chasing the Mafia

The ‘ndrangheta – the Calabrian region of Italy’s mafia – is one of wealthiest and most powerful criminal organizations today. It is considered Italy’s most powerful mafia; it’s not only the main object of concern for anti-mafia units in Italy, but also for joint investigative teams in Europe and beyond. Combining autobiography, travel ethnography, memoir, academic rigour and investigative journalism, this book provides a global outlook on the ‘ndrangheta, taking the reader to small villages and locations in Italy and abroad to Australia, Canada, United States and Argentina.

Anita Lavorgna

This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the ‘ndrangheta. It draws together diverse perspectives on the various ‘ndrangheta clans and their behavioural models, focusing specifically on their organisational skills, their bonds with Calabrian society and Calabrian communities around the world, their mobility, and their characterisation as poly-crime organisations. The authors demonstrate that ‘ndrangheta clans have an innovative way of being and doing mafia work through a dense network of relationships both in the ‘upperworld’ and in the ‘underworld’, a particularly acute sense of business, a reputation built on the protection of blood and family ties, and, last but not least, a symbiotic relationship and camouflage within Calabrian society. By focusing on both the structures and the activities of the clans and with findings based on judicial documents, this book explores why the ‘ndrangheta is today labeled as “the most powerful Italian mafia”. It will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars of organised crime and sociology.

The Glocal Dimensions of the Most Powerful Italian Mafia

'Ndrangheta

Sergi Pantaleone

«Quello che ne La ‘Santa’ violenta era indagine, è diventato sentenza. Quello che era intuizione è diventato analisi. Quello che era rischio è spesso diventato realtà…». La ‘Santa’ violenta è stato uno dei primi testi sulla ’ndrangheta, pubblicato nel 1991, dopo la stagione dei sequestri di persona e la cosiddetta “pax mafiosa”. Ripercorre con lucidità, empatia e spunti critici, quella che è stata la trasformazione della ’ndrangheta in Santa, un’organizzazione criminale che non si accontenta più dell’accumulazione di denaro, ma vuole usare quel denaro per conquistare fette di potere, politico ed economico, in Calabria e altrove. Questa trasformazione, ci racconta Pantaleone Sergi, è stata certamente violenta. Trent’anni dopo, alla penna esperta di Pantaleone Sergi, che la storia della ’ndrangheta negli anni Settanta, Ottanta e Novanta l’ha narrata in diretta, si accompagna un’analisi critico-accademica di Anna Sergi, criminologa, docente all’Università di Essex nel Regno Unito, e affermata ricercatrice del fenomeno mafioso e ’ndranghetista in Italia e all’estero. Anna Sergi riprende l’eco della violenza mafiosa che La ‘Santa’ violenta aveva raccontato e si chiede cosa sia cambiato. La Santa ’ndrangheta è ancora violenta? Adesso «la ’ndrangheta è una mafia a cui piace piacere, non spaventare, se non quando è strettamente necessario». E se non è più violenta, cosa fa, cosa è diventata? È diventata, tra le altre cose, una Santa ‘contesa’ per quattro motivi: l’unitarietà, la violenza dei clan, la loro mobilità e l’essenza stessa della Santa, come organizzazione cerniera con politica ed economia del territorio. Queste pagine – la Santa ‘contesa’ e la Santa ‘violenta’ – lette in successione, ci ricordano quanto sia fondamentale preservare la memoria storica di certi anni per arricchire le analisi di oggi.

La Santa 'Ndrangheta. Da "violenta" a "contesa"

Darren Thiel

Pamela Cox

Nigel South

Eamonn Carrabine

Pete Fussey

Isabel Crowhurst

Jackie Turton

Alexandra Cox

Anna Di Ronco

Revised edition of Criminology: a sociological introduction, 2014.

A Sociological Introduction

Criminology

This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups. Through interviews and interpretation of original documents, this study firstly demonstrates the interaction between institutional understanding of the criminal threats and historical events that have shaped these perceptions. Secondly, it combines analysis of policies and criminal law provisions to identify how policing models which combat mafia and organised crime activities are organized and constructed in each country within a comparative perspective. After presenting the similarities between the four differing policing models, Sergi pushes the comparison further by identifying both conceptual and procedural convergences and divergences across both the four models and within international frameworks. By looking at topics as varied as mafia mobility, money laundering, drug networks and gang violence, this book ultimately seeks to reconsider the conceptualizations of both mafia and organized crime from a socio-behavioural and cultural perspective.

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