Fourth Report on Crime and Security in Naples Unsafe Lives: Forms of Violence against Women

Giacomo Di Gennaro; Riccardo  Marselli

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-345-5

Fourth Report on Crime and Security in Naples Unsafe Lives: Forms of Violence against Women

Authors

Giacomo Di Gennaro

University of Naples Federico II

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

Riccardo Marselli

University of Naples Parthenope

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

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-345-5

Keywords:

violence again women, deviance, victimization, tranche de vie, longitudinal studies

Synopsis

Editore: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Studies and Researches in Criminal, Legal and Social Sciences

Pages: 415

Language: Italian

Abstract: The Fourth Report on “Crime and Security in Naples”, following the previous three editions, proposes in the first section an analysis of the dynamics of crime in metropolitan cities over a long period of about twenty years coinciding with the beginning of the first data archiving that took place on the occasion of the first report and updated to 2023. The broad time period made available to scholars, and more generally to interested readers, offers a particularly valuable comparative analytical reference point on the dynamics of crime in the metropolitan areas of the country. As with previous editions, this Fourth Report also delves into and reflects on a particular crime whose visibility and rootedness have connections that are not only social but also economic and institutional: for this edition, the choice fell on gender violence and particularly that exercised in its various forms on women, a theme that although it has strongly emerged in more recent times represents a phenomenon rooted in time and that is expressed in different and heterogeneous forms, not limited to the family or interpersonal relationships but which affects the various articulations of the public space. Although aware of the difficulty of providing a decisive contribution to the understanding of the phenomenon under study, the Report - replicating an approach also used in previous editions - proposes an analysis methodology that is enriched by the contribution of various experts and that does not ignore either listening to the victims or an analysis of the stories of the perpetrators of the crimes. This Fourth Report concludes a series that has identified in the city of Naples a simple pretext from which to reason about what happens in our country in relation to certain crimes, also to break representative schemes of certain phenomena advanced without adequate support from empirical evidence.

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Author Biographies

Giacomo Di Gennaro, University of Naples Federico II

Giacomo Di Gennaro is full professor of Sociology of Law and deviance. He also teaches Sociology, Planning and Management of Social Policies and Criminology at the University of Naples Federico II, where he coordinates the II level Master in "Criminology and Criminal Law. Criminal analysis and policies for urban security" at the Department of Political Sciences, since 2010 and the Degree Course LM-62/91 in "Criminological, Investigative and Cybercrime Fighting Sciences" since 2023. He is the author of over 150 national and international publications. Among the most recent are: The Corruption Trap. The Perverse Dynamics of Hidden Exchange: A Case Study in Campania (FrancoAngeli, 2023); Boys Who Shoot. Journey into Serious Juvenile Deviance (with Maria Luisa Iavarone, FrancoAngeli, 2023); The Power of Extortion. A Predictive Model as a Countermeasure Strategy, (Editoriale scientifica, 2023).

Riccardo Marselli, University of Naples Parthenope

Riccardo Marselli is full professor of political economy at the University of Naples "Parthenope". His research activity ranges across different aspects of the economic analysis of the criminal phenomenon. The main studies concern the empirical evaluations of the economic determinants of crime, the economic analysis of the deterrence system and the role and effectiveness of alternative measures of dispute resolution.