Martone & Vesco – On the Edges of Organised Crime 1
The European Review of Organised Crime
Editorial
On the Edges of Organised Crime
Vittorio Martone* and Antonio Vesco**
This special issue is the result of a collaboration that began in 2014, stemming from a
shared reflection among academics interested in Italian Mafias from different
perspectives, including sociology, anthropology and political science. Thanks to a
series of official meetings (in Ottawa, Paris and Naples), we progressively defined our
theoretical frameworks and developed the research questions through which to look at
our subject matter. As an introduction to this special issue of EROC, it may be helpful
to recall the main theoretical and methodological issues that emerged during our
meetings.
*Vittorio Martone is research fellow in the Department of Social Sciences, University of
Naples Federico II, Italy. Among his recent publications, the book Le mafie di mezzo. Mercati
e reti criminali a Roma e nel Lazio (Donzelli 2017).
Contact: vittorio.martone@unina.it
** Antonio Vesco is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Cultures, Politics and
Society at the University of Turin. He completed his PhD thesis in Anthropology
(University of Siena) and Political Sciences (University of Paris 1 Sorbonne). He is a member
of the Scientific Committee of LARCO (Laboratorio di Analisi e Ricerca sulla Criminalità
Organizzata, University of Turin). Contact: antonio.vesco@unito.it
The European Review of Organised Crime 4(1), 2017, pp. 1-8.
ISSN: 2312-1653
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