Monica Massari and Vittorio Martone (2018) ‬Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans‬. Great Britain: Routledge

Mafia-type groups-a specific type of group involving organised crime-aim to acquire profit and gain power.However, the criminal dimension is only one part of these complex social structures (Sergi 2017).Indeed, mafias are part of the realities in which they exist; they adapt to legal frameworks as much as they evolve intervenient variables within their own communities by seizing financial opportunities, using mobility inside and outside their home territory or embracing evolutions of gender, generational and family relations.The edited collection of work titled Mafia Violence: Political, Symbolic, and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans, edited by Monica Massari and Vittorio Martone, aims to examine how mafia clanscollectively known as 'Camorra'-from the region of Campania, Southern Italy employ violence in urban and rural areas of the region and country.The Camorra clans are well known for their exhibition of violence and their ability to diversify their portfolio of organised crime activities in Italy and beyond (Allum 2016).Spanning from extortion, murder and street crime to political corruption, infiltration into the legal economy and various forms of fraud and bribery, Camorra clans have been studied especially for their brutality and blood-spilling feuds (Dickie 2013).

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