Crime and Security in Naples

Giacomo Di Gennaro; Riccardo Marselli

Crime and Security in Naples: Second 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: 344.

Language: Italian.

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-22311

Abstract: In this second report on crime and security in Naples are addressed questions such as the determinants of a high propensity to illegal behavior although crime appears very risky, the appearance of youth-gangs and their peculiarities with respect to similar experiences in other countries, the correlation between social and economic vulnerability and the diffusion of an illegal credit market, the relationship between households’ overindebtedness and their consumption behavior, the diffusion of an usury market where criminal organizations rise huge profits.

Many changes have occurred in the deviant and criminal behaviors, and an appropriate response to all of them ask for a radical innovation in the policies to prevent, control and contrast crime. In our region, what might be perceived as a social damnation is actually the result of different factors that produce a sort of crime trap, such that the diffusion of illegal behaviors reduce legal opportunities making a criminal career more convenient.

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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”.