Tougher fines for possession don’t solve the problems that enable gangs to move in to cities like Marseille.
- Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
The legendary agenda rossa contained extensive notes on how organised crime operated in a particularly turbulent period in Italian history.
Abuse of office is no longer a crime and the use of wiretaps has been severely restricted.
Real ‘mob wives’ either avoid drawing attention to themselves or present a superficial illusion of what their lives are really like.
Women are often victims of these highly patriarchal crime systems – but they can also be powerful decision makers and exploiters of others.
The stories of women who escape the mafia need to be told but we also need to learn more about the women who stay and reinforce the structures of crime families.
Matteo Messina Denaro es la última cara conocida del sindicato del crimen Cosa Nostra. Su detención bien podría producir un vacío de poder que sumiera a la Cosa Nostra en una crisis, pero no supone su fin.
The mafia boss is the last known face of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. But his capture represents the end of an era, not the end of the mafia in Sicily.
In contrast to their depiction in most mafia films, women are an integral part of these groups with their own criminal knowledge and capacity for violence
Police should take a wider view to join the dots that link the networks behind slavery and drugs.
Suggestions that the Camorra has been usurped are exaggerated.
Working abroad can be a profitable option for members of criminal groups.
Seven world leaders with axes to grind are preparing to sit round one table. Sparks will fly.
There are plenty of examples of strong women in the top echelons of organised crime – they don’t seem to be there in McMafia.
The former ‘boss of all bosses’ has died aged 87 while serving 26 life sentences.
Locals use beauty in the battle to reclaim public space from the clutches of organised crime groups.
Police and the courts have locked up some of Europe’s most notorious mob bosses – but the next generation of would-be kingpins are even worse.
This was a vote against the prime minister – not a show of support for his rivals.
Domenico Rancadore was hiding out in west London for 20 years but there are other opportunities for crime gangs in the UK.
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