Sociology and Anthropology 1(2): 118-134, 2013 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010211 The Roots of the Organized Criminal Underworld in Campania Pasquale Peluso Department of Public Politics and Administration Sciences, “Guglielmo Marconi” University, Rome, 00144, Italy *Corresponding Author:
[email protected] Copyright © 2013 Horizon Research Publishing All rights reserved. Abstract The Camorra is a closed sect that acts in the was born and how it has changed and developed over the shadows and does not collect and preserve documents that centuries, transforming from a rural Camorra to a can later be studied by scholars or researchers. It is hard to metropolitan one and finally to an entrepreneurial modern rebuild the history of the Camorra: the picture is fragmented, Camorra that uses different methods in order to manage its a mix of half-truths and legends. The aim of this article is to affairs threatening the nation. make a diachronic excursus in order to find out the origins of the Neapolitan Camorra, that has had a longer history than any of the other mafias, and to explain how this secret 2. Methodology organization has changed its main features from 1800 to the present and from the Bella Società Riformata to Nuova The research has suggested a detailed picture of the crime Camorra Organizzata. Finally the modern clans that fight to phenomenon and connected the study of a large number of keep the possession of their territory and operate like documents contrasting the Camorra and the careful financial holdings in order to improve their business assessment of sources about the topic.