Calabria and the ‘Ndrangheta

Sergi, Anna; Lavorgna, Anita

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32585-9_2

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“…The Calabrian mafia today is object of much debate in contemporary scholarly work – in particular, its criminal activities, especially drugs, in Italy and abroad (Calderoni, 2012; Calderoni and Caneppele, 2009; Lavorgna, 2015a, 2015b) and its movement and expansion worldwide (Calderoni et al, 2016; Sergi, 2018; Varese, 2011). Indeed, the ‘ndrangheta is now considered to be the principal Italian mafia worldwide (Sergi and Lavorgna, 2016). This particular study, however, provided the opportunity to explore its impact on family life and child development in its place of origin, the Southern Italian region of Calabria.…”

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“…In a territory as diverse and fragmented as Calabria (Sergi, 1993), however, we could indeed talk about different ‘ ndranghete (plural) as the other provinces in the Calabrian region are definitely not free from mafia behaviour based on family alliances. These shared features represent the second meaning of the word ‘ndrangheta: a collective indication of a set of behaviours , a ‘way of being’ and ‘doing’ mafia in Calabria, which can be referred to as ‘ ndranghetism (Sergi and Lavorgna, 2016). No mafia clan is a separate and marginal entity, but they are organic to their communities (Sergi, 2015).…”

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“…Antimafia prosecutors in Italy claim that the ‘ndrangheta is the most powerful mafia both in Italy and also abroad (DNA, 2017). Indeed most contemporary literature on the ‘ndrangheta highlights its global reach, its mobility and its capacity to penetrate and dominate various legal and illegal markets nationally and transnationally (Sergi and Lavorgna, 2016). This article examines the ways in which the Youth Tribunal in Reggio Calabria – and in Reggio Calabria only in the whole of Italy – is attempting to break mafia power locally, by affecting the way mafia culture and behaviours are transmitted and learned in mafia families.…”

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Widening the Antimafia Net: Child Protection and the Socio-Cultural Transmission of Mafia Behaviours in Calabria

Sergi¹

2018

Youth Justice

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This paper explores proceedings by the Youth Tribunal of Reggio Calabria, Southern Italy, aimed at the protection of children in families where one or both parents are investigated for mafia offences. The findings show that preventing the transmission of mafia ('ndrangheta) culture in the local context has become an essential part of child protection measures. This paper will argue that when discussing child protection in criminal families, it is necessary a) to question the nature of the bonds of these families with the socio-cultural context; and, b) to concretely assess the way this context wishes to affect the family's criminality.

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Widening the Antimafia Net: Child Protection and the Socio-Cultural Transmission of Mafia Behaviours in Calabria

Sergi¹

2018

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“…With the aim of deepening the way in which ‘Ndrangheta establishes itself as the most powerful criminal organization spread across five continents (Sergi and Lavorgna 2016b), it is fundamental to explore both the structural and the functional pillars on which this Calabrian organized crime syndicate has built its undisputable hegemony in cocaine trafficking.…”

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“…At the same time Operations Columbus I and II, 21 which lasted from May 2015 to 1 October 2015, and Operation Solares 22 that started in 2008 23 discovered both the presence of a Latin America/North America/Calabria axis and the involvement of brokers directly operating to ease off partnerships with the Mexican groups (Sergi and Lavorgna 2016b) 24 .…”

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Between Local and Global: the ‘Ndrangheta’s Drug Trafficking Route

Calandra¹

2017

Int. ann. criminol.

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According to the last United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime report (2016), 247 million people aged between 15 and 64 years used drugs at least once in the past year, with cocaine being the best-selling of the goods from the 'Ndrangheta. In this case, the drugs trade is 60% of the systemic gain due to illicit trafficking that allowed the spreading of the Calabrian criminal organization across five continents. Nevertheless, this sometimes little-known apparently harmless organization, which comes from the Aspromonte heartland in Calabria, was included by the United States in the blacklist of the 75 most dangerous drug-trafficking organizations only in 2008. Therefore, this investigative study, based on reference literature, aims to analyse what are the aspects that make the Calabrian criminal organization "local" and "global" at the same time as well as the strengths and weaknesses in combating 'Ndrangheta's drug trafficking.

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Countering the Australian ‘ndrangheta: The criminalisation of mafia behaviour in Australia between national and comparative criminal law

Sergi

2016

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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Mafia-type criminal groups belonging to, or originated from, the Calabrian 'ndrangheta from Southern Italy, have been object of recent academic research and media attention in Australia. The Australian 'ndrangheta, as qualified form of organised crime, poses new challenges for law enforcement in the country. This paper briefly looks at the strategies to fight organised crime in Australia, with specific focus on anti-association laws. By using a comparative approach, the paper will look at the criminalisation of mafias as qualified forms of organised crime in other two jurisdictions, Italy and the USA, to advocate for an effective mafia criminalisation in Australia. In conclusion this paper will argue that, in order to also fight mafia phenomena, criminal law in Australia should focus on behaviours of organised crime groups rather than only on the criminalisation of proscribed associations and their illegal activities.

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Calabria and the ‘Ndrangheta

Cited by 5 publications

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Widening the Antimafia Net: Child Protection and the Socio-Cultural Transmission of Mafia Behaviours in Calabria

Widening the Antimafia Net: Child Protection and the Socio-Cultural Transmission of Mafia Behaviours in Calabria

Between Local and Global: the ‘Ndrangheta’s Drug Trafficking Route

Countering the Australian ‘ndrangheta: The criminalisation of mafia behaviour in Australia between national and comparative criminal law

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