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.
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