Università Roma Tre

Orientation

Session 1 Presentation of the course.

An initial brainstorming and a survey of useful key concepts and keywords for the course. Overcoming mafia stereotypes. Legal and cultural definition of organized crime.


Session 2

Assigned readings session 2,
Required
L. Paoli, T. Vander Beken, Organized Crime: A Contested Concept, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 13-31 (19 pp.);

S. Lupo, History of the Mafia, Columbia University Press, 2009, pp. 1-30 (30 pp.);

L. Paoli, The Italian Mafia, in in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 121-141 (20 pp.)

Defining the concept of Organized Crime. Understanding Mafia's concept and historical roots: its structure, activities, economic organization and the links to politics and society.

Checking the understanding of assigned readings. Class discussion.

Session 3

Assigned readings for session 3,
Required
La Spina Antonio, The Fight against the Mafia in Italy, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 593-611 (19 pp.);

Jamieson Alison, The Antimafia. Italy's fight against organized crime, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 127-158 (Ch. 5, "The Grassroots Antimafia"), (32 pp.).

Picciotto Loredana, The Social Innovation of Social Cooperatives Operating on Confiscated Mafia Properties: Support Factors and Critical Issues, in AAVV, Managing Intellectual Capital and Innovation for Sustainable and Inclusive Society, Proceedings of the MakeLearn and TIIM Joint International Conference, 27-29 May, 2015, Bari, Italy, (16 pp.)

Ginsborg Paul, Italy and its Discontents. Family, Society, State 1980-2001, London, Penguin Books, 2003, pp. 249-284 (35 pp.)

The history of Mafia and Antimafia in Italy from the 1980s to the 2000s: legislation and social organizations. Defining social innovation and understanding the main social innovation and anti-mafias actors in Italy.

Comments and discussion on the movie "I cento passi".

Preparation to the excursion.


Session 4

Assigned readings for session 4,
Required
Paoli Letizia, Mafia Brotherhoods. Organized Crime, Italian Style, Oxford, OUP, 2003, pp. 44-85, (42 pp.);

Varese Federico, Protection and extortion, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 343-358 (15 pp.)

L. Palermo, Beyond the wall: street art in the fight against the Camorra, in "Modern Italy", Vol. 22, N. 4, pp. 381-401, (21 pp.).

The other Mafias (and Antimafia movements) in Italy: Camorra and 'Ndrangheta.

Comments and debate on the movie "La mafia uccide solo d'estate"

Review - Q&A session
Mid-term exam


Session 5

Assigned readings for session 5,
Required
Albanese Jay S., The Italian-American Mafia, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 142-158, (17 pp.);

Jacobs James B, Dondlinger Wyman Elizabeth, Organized crime control in the United States of America, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 529-544 (16 pp.)

Paoli Letizia, Mafia Brotherhoods. Organized Crime, Italian Style, Oxford, OUP, 2003, pp. 21-30, (10 pp.)

Recommended
US Government, Strategy to combat transnational organized crime - Addressing Converging Threats to National Security, July 2011

Mafia and Antimafia in Italy and the US. Analogies and diversity of parallel phenomena.

Social innovation and solidarity economy in Italy and the USA.

Session 6

Assigned readings for session 6,
Required
Levi Michael, Money Laundering, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 419-443 (24 pp.);

Reuter Peter, Drug Markets and Organized Crime, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 359-380 (21 pp.);

Boekhout Van Solinge Tim, The Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 500-526 (26 pp.)

Recommended
UNODC, The Globalization of Crime A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment, 2010 Report

UNODC, World Drug Report, 2010

The international dimension of organized crime. Features and figures of mafias’ economy in the world.

Organized crime as a threat to world economy: money laundering, drug trafficking, environmental crimes and illegal exploitation of natural resources.

Presentation of individual research topic proposals and of a preliminary list of sources.


Session 7

Assigned readings for session 7,
Required
Jamieson Alison, The Antimafia. Italy's fight against organized crime, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 159-199 (40 pp.)

Beare Margaret and Woodiwiss Michael, U.S. Organized Crime Control Policies Exported Abroad, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 545-571 (26 pp.)

Fijnaut Cyrille, European Union Organized Crime Control Policies, in L. Paoli (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP, Oxford, 2014, pp. 572-592 (20 pp);

Grasseni Cristina, Forno Francesca, and Signori Silvana, Beyond Alternative Food Networks: Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups and the United States' Community Economies, in Utting Peter (ed.), Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe, London, Zed Books, 2015, pp. 185-201 (26 pp).

Main anti - mafias actors and strategies in Europe and in the US. Organized crime control and finance-oriented strategies.

Best practices of solidarity economy in Italy and the US.

Session 8

Students' presentations

Session 9

Students' presentations

Session 10

Guest lecture

Session 11

Review class - Q&A session

Final exam

This course is taught in English.

Letture richieste
• Ginsborg Paul, Italy and its Discontents. Family, Society, State 1980-2001, London, Penguin Books, 2003, (pagine selezionate, si veda il programma)
• Jamieson Alison, The Antimafia. Italy's fight against organized crime, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000, (pagine selezionate, si veda il programma)
• Lupo Salvatore, History of the Mafia, Columbia University Press: New York, 2009, (pagine selezionate, si veda il programma)
• Paoli Letizia, Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, OUP: Oxford, 2008, (pagine selezionate, si veda il programma)
• Paoli Letizia (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime, OUP: Oxford, 2014, (pagine selezionate, si veda il programma)
• Picciotto Loredana, The Social Innovation of Social Cooperatives Operating on Confiscated Mafia Properties: Support Factors and Critical Issues, in AAVV, Managing Intellectual Capital and Innovation for Sustainable and Inclusive Society, Proceedings of the MakeLearn and TIIM Joint International Conference, 27-29 May, 2015, Bari, Italy
• Utting Peter (ed.), Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe, London, Zed Books, 2015 (pagine selezionate, si veda il programma)

Letture suggerite
• Behan Tom, See Napoli and die, London, Macmillan, 2002
• Lilley Peter, Dirty Dealing. The Untold Truth About Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism, London and Philadelphia, Kogan Page, 2006
• Saviano Roberto, Gomorrah – Italy’s other Mafia, London, Macmillan, 2008