Crime and Security in Naples

Giacomo Di Gennaro; Riccardo Marselli

Crime and Security in Naples: Third report

Authors

Giacomo Di Gennaro

University of Naples Federico II

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1529-3454

Riccardo Marselli

University of Naples Parthenope

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-2281

Keywords:

crime, security, criminality, criminal organization, hot spot, deterrence

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Pages: 496

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27534

Abstract: This Third Report highlights a marked downward trend in the criminal phenomenon, which certainly requires a deeper analysis on the reasons behind this decline as well as on the most effective counter measures, which will probably have to be more selective. In this context, however, the situation in Naples and Campania is worrying, where crimes committed by minors are recorded which, although not quantitatively high, are characterised by their extreme violence. Furthermore, a dual structure of the criminal market is emerging on a territorial basis and it is worthy of attention, with an almost exclusive presence of indigenous crime in the South and mixed crime in the North. This report then analyzes in detail the issue of corruption, chosen as a crime to be analysed in depth because it is through corruption that power is exercised. This also explains why the mafia today more than ever resort to the instrument of corruption, because through it they condition the institutional structures, the local governments of the territories, carry out mediation and protection activities, regulate markets and services. In other words, the analysis of this crime and the identification of the driving forces behind this phenomenon can represent a further opportunity for reflection on the likely change in the hierarchical importance of criminal markets that may be at the basis of the mutations in the criminal phenomenon that we today observe at the aggregate level

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Author Biographies

Giacomo Di Gennaro, University of Naples Federico II

Professor of Sociology and Planning and Management of Social Policies, has been teaching for years Sociology of criminal organizations in the Master’s Degree in “Criminology and Criminal Law. Criminal and Policy Analysis for Urban Security” of which he is Director since 2010, at Federico II, University of Naples. He is a member of the Department of Political Science. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the «Observatory on the Camorra and the illegality in Naples» from 2005 to 2009. Latest publications: (2018), Extortion, in R. D. Morgan (eds), The Sage Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks Calif.; (2016), (eds with A. La Spina), The Costs of Illegality: Mafia-Type Organisations and Extortion, the Case of Campania, “Global Crime”; (2015), (a cura di), L'usura in Campania. Un ricorso differenziato al credito illegale ma un uguale esito di avvelenamento dell'economia regionale, Rubbettino; (2015), (a cura di), Le estorsioni in Campania. Il controllo dello spazio sociale tra violenza e consenso, Rubbettino; (2013), Estorsioni e usura: l'impatto distorsivo delle attività illegali dei clan di camorra sull'economia regionale campana, “Rassegna Economica”.

Riccardo Marselli, University of Naples Parthenope

Professor of International Economics at “Parthenope” University of Naples, is a member of the Department of Business and Economics. He directed the Colasanto Foundation’s “Observatory on the Camorra”, from 1993 to 1997. Latest publications: (2015), Trends of Crime. A Comparison Between Countries, Working Paper CRISEI; (2015), (eds with B. C. McCannon e M Vannini), Bargaining in the Shadow of Arbitration, “Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization”; (2015), (eds with A. D. Scano e M. Vannini), L’arbitrato alla prova dei dati: un’analisi empirica sui procedimenti amministrati dalla camera arbitrale di Milano, “Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto e Procedura Civile”; (2013), La persistenza dei tassi di criminalità: il ruolo del sistema di deterrenza, in R. Bifulco e M. R. Carillo (a cura di), I nuovi caratteri del dualismo Nord-Sud: aspetti economici, sociali e normativi, Editoriale Scientifica; (2013), (eds with G. Di Gennaro), Access to Credit and the Rate of Victimization in an Entrepreneurial Community, “Sociology Study”.