How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad

Critical Notes on 'Ndrangheta Mobility
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4934-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

The influence and spread of clans and families within the ‘ndrangheta - the Calabrian mafia - is international yet recognising their activities is not always easy, especially when considering mafia groups’ apparent ability to ‘disappear’ when abroad. This book challenges existing myths about the mobility of this mafia group, emphasizing mafias' interconnectivity and ubiquity both at home and abroad, while providing practical tools for law enforcement and organized crime practitioners.

It considers potential biases around ethnicities and surnames and the intergenerational diversification of mafias – for example, the use of encryption technologies. Combining theory with case studies drawn from Anna Sergi’s extensive fieldwork, the book sets out the policy and practice implications for combatting organized crime.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sergi, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How To Understand Mafias

2. How To Understand the Ethnicity Trap

3. How To Understand the (Sur)name Trap

4. How To Understand Intergenerational Changes

5. How To Understand Community Relationships

6. How To Understand Ghosts

Über Autor(innen)

Sergi, Anna
Anna Sergi is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She specialises in organised crime and comparative criminal justice. She has published widely including four previous books, the most recent one published by Bristol University Press.

Anna Sergi was Professor of Criminology at the University of Essex until September 2025. From October 2025 she is Professor of Sociology of Deviance at the University of Bologna. She is the recipient of the 2023 Early Career Award by the European Society of Criminology.