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- Publication Date
- 2016-09-27
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781501702457
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
1501702459
ISBN-13
9781501702457
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224013924
Product Key Features
Book Title
Invisible Camorra : Neapolitan Crime Families Across Europe
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Political Economy, General, Organized Crime, Criminology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-021196
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"The Invisible Camorra is a riveting account of Italy's oldest Mafia and its expansion across Europe. Written with raw honesty, this book takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this powerful criminal organization and its connection with social, economic, and political establishments. Felia Allum is an outstanding scholar and she has done a commendable job."--Antonio Nicaso, Queen's University and the Italian School of Middlebury College at Mills, coauthor of Business or Blood and Made Men, Suggests a number of important questions: where do women fit into migrations patterns? Does migration loosen ties around gender roles amongst Camorra? No one is better-placed to start to answer these questions. The Invisible Camorra won the 2017 book award from the International Division of the American Society of Criminology. It is a worthy winner. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in organised crime. Police officers, scholars and students will all find something here that informs their work or scholarship., "Impressive empirical research informs this book, which examines camorristi on the move-members of the Neapolitan Camorra who, since 1980, have migrated to several European countries. Having tapped police and judicial records, interviews with prosecutors and prisoners alike, journalistic accounts, and her own past as an ethnographic sociologist in Naples, Felia Allum offers a wealth of data to support her conclusions regarding why camorristi migrate, and how they behave in new locations. Analyses cover the importance to migrants of pragmatic moneymaking initiatives; the fluid relationships they construct, not only with camorristi in other locations but also with business and political enablers; and the efforts they make to become, and remain, invisible. These features are central to Allum's fine-grained assessment of the Camorra's transnational criminal network-and an important contribution to the study of 'criminal migration' overall."-Jane Schneider, Graduate Center, City University of New York, coauthor of Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle in Palermo, The Invisible Camorra is a riveting account of Italy's oldest Mafia and its expansion across Europe. Written with raw honesty, this book takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this powerful criminal organization and its connection with social, economic, and political establishments. Felia Allum is an outstanding scholar and she has done a commendable job., "In this well-written book, Felia Allum uses a small number of well-documented cases to determine both how and why those affiliated with the Camorra leave Italy and pursue criminal activities in five other European countries: Germany, Holland, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. 'Camorra' is a label used to describe many different individuals, families, clans, and alliances; it is a loose criminal association interested in money and power, combining elements of a traditional secret society as well as a business. The Invisible Camorra is noteworthy for its use of court documents, multiple interviews, and a careful focus on sixteen cases to determine why and how individuals associated with the Camorra export themselves and their activities. Allum's documentation of the relationship between Camorra and legitimate business is significant. The book is a distinguished contribution to the literature on organized crime."--Jay S. Albanese, Virginia Commonwealth University, author of Transnational Crime and the 21st Century: Criminal Enterprise, Corruption, and Opportunity, Felia Allum's book skilfully provides a systematic and meticulous account of Camorra's familiar organisations and activities abroad, showing how clans evolved from being unsophisticated and independent groups of offenders to the powerful criminal force that the Camorra is today.... Overall, the book is undoubtedly an important contribution to the organised crime literature. It proficiently and with very accessible writing guides the reader on a travel through space and time to understand the globalism of Camorra.... Allum explicitly locates her book in the realm of political sociology. However, it should be of great interest for scholars in history, Italian studies, policing, and mafia studies. It should be a useful read for journalists and senior policy makers as well., In this well-written book, Felia Allum uses a small number of well-documented cases to determine both how and why those affiliated with the Camorra leave Italy and pursue criminal activities in five other European countries: Germany, Holland, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. 'Camorra' is a label used to describe many different individuals, families, clans, and alliances; it is a loose criminal association interested in money and power, combining elements of a traditional secret society as well as a business. The Invisible Camorra is noteworthy for its use of court documents, multiple interviews, and a careful focus on sixteen cases to determine why and how individuals associated with the Camorra export themselves and their activities. Allum's documentation of the relationship between Camorra and legitimate business is significant. The book is a distinguished contribution to the literature on organized crime., Impressive empirical research informs this book, which examines camorristi on the move--members of the Neapolitan Camorra who, since 1980, have migrated to several European countries. Having tapped police and judicial records, interviews with prosecutors and prisoners alike, journalistic accounts, and her own past as an ethnographic sociologist in Naples, Felia Allum offers a wealth of data to support her conclusions regarding why camorristi migrate, and how they behave in new locations. Analyses cover the importance to migrants of pragmatic moneymaking initiatives; the fluid relationships they construct, not only with camorristi in other locations but also with business and political enablers; and the efforts they make to become, and remain, invisible. These features are central to Allum's fine-grained assessment of the Camorra's transnational criminal network--and an important contribution to the study of 'criminal migration' overall., "The Invisible Camorra is a riveting account of Italy's oldest Mafia and its expansion across Europe. Written with raw honesty, this book takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this powerful criminal organization and its connection with social, economic, and political establishments. Felia Allum is an outstanding scholar and she has done a commendable job."-Antonio Nicaso, Queen's University and the Italian School of Middlebury College at Mills, coauthor of Business or Blood and Made Men, "Impressive empirical research informs this book, which examines camorristi on the move--members of the Neapolitan Camorra who, since 1980, have migrated to several European countries. Having tapped police and judicial records, interviews with prosecutors and prisoners alike, journalistic accounts, and her own past as an ethnographic sociologist in Naples, Felia Allum offers a wealth of data to support her conclusions regarding why camorristi migrate, and how they behave in new locations. Analyses cover the importance to migrants of pragmatic moneymaking initiatives; the fluid relationships they construct, not only with camorristi in other locations but also with business and political enablers; and the efforts they make to become, and remain, invisible. These features are central to Allum's fine-grained assessment of the Camorra's transnational criminal network--and an important contribution to the study of 'criminal migration' overall."--Jane Schneider, Graduate Center, City University of New York, coauthor of Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle in Palermo
Dewey Edition
23
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The
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
364.1060895104
Synopsis
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 throughout Naples and its environs. Felia Allum has been researching the Camorra for twenty years, and in The Invisible Camorra she reveals a surprising alteration in Camorra behavior when operatives live outside the Neapolitan base. When gang members move away from Naples, having been forced out by intense policing and gang competition, they are attracted by business opportunities that, on the whole, fit in with their usual activities. When they move to other parts of Western Europe and are therefore no longer criminals simply by virtue of "mafia association" as they are in Italy, they become largely invisible. Gang members avoid the spectacular deployment of violence, they merge quietly into local life, they keep themselves to themselves, and, when necessary, use legitimate local actors such as lawyers and accountants to further their economic well-being. Allum has constructed a meticulous description and analysis of Camorra activities abroad. To build accounts of the Camorra in Germany and the Netherlands, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, she has interviewed investigating magistrates, police officers, and confessed criminals; done substantial mining of Italian and European police data; and made extensive use of judicial investigations, court records and transcripts as well as of journalistic accounts. The result is the first systematic analysis of the overseas activities of this major criminal organization., Felia Allum has been researching the Camorra for twenty years, and in The Invisible Camorra she reveals a surprising alteration in Camorra behavior when operatives live outside the Neapolitan base.
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HV6453.I83C2895 2016
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