Camorra-Clans und die Kontrolle von Territorium in heutigen Neapel

The article analyzes the history of some Neapolitan criminal groups by using a great judicial documentation. The author focuses on their morphology and their insertion in the city’s neighborhoods, and examines the relations between local territory and international criminal activities. Using a micro-analytic approach she analyzes the different activities that founded the big sphere of the illegal economy: drug trafficking, the production of fake products, racketeering, the illegal occupation of public houses. An organization emerged which assures regular salaries to the affiliates and many resources to a wide world marginalized by the official economic sphere: a sort of an alternative welfare system that, however, rests upon violence and arbitrary acts

Codes of Commitment to Crime and Resistance: Determining Social and Cultural Factors over the Behaviors of Italian Mafia Women

This article categorizes thirty-three women in four main Italian Mafia groups and explores social and cultural behaviors of these women. This study introduces the feminist theory of belief and action. The theoretical inquiry investigates the sometimes conflicting behaviors of women when they are subject to systematic oppression. I argue that there is a cultural polarization among the categorized sub-groups. Conservative radicals give their support to the Mafia while defectors and rebels resist the Mafia. After testing the theory, I assert that emancipation of women depends on the strength of their beliefs to perform actions against the Mafiosi culture

Resistere alla guerra. Le memorie e le esperienze delle donne nel secondo conflitto mondiale

Il saggio tratta del ruolo delle donne nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale analizzando le differenti esperienze vissute attraverso la storiografia, le memorie, le testimonianze

1942. Bombing on Italy

In un volume che raccoglie testi in relazione a date significative nella storia italiana all'interno della più ampia storia internazionale il saggio prende in considerazione il 1942, anno in cui ebbero inizio i grandi bombardamenti a tappeto attuati insieme da inglesi e americani

Grandmothers, Mothers and Daughters. Life Histories, Ideals and Values of Three Generations of Women

I propose the history of three women’s generations (grandmothers, mothers and daughters) Grandmothers are mostly women of working classes. The daughters and granddaughters, not without difficulty, traverse a route of upward mobility. I would to describe continuity and change of cultural patterns

Introduzione

Si tratta dell'introduzione ai saggi che affrontano i temi e i casi legati a mafie, camorra e criminalità organizzata. L'autore ripercorre la storia delle trasformazioni dei gruppi criminali e illegali, il loro inserimento nelle reti internazionali. Affronta, inoltre, il problema degli approcci analitici e della comparazione