DOCSLIB.ORG

Ministry of Economic Development DIRECTORATE-GENERAL for the FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING – ITALIAN PATENT and TRADEMARK OFFICE

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ministry of Economic Development DIRECTORATE-GENERAL for the FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING – ITALIAN PATENT and TRADEMARK OFFICE Ministry of Economic Development DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING – ITALIAN PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE COUNTERFEITING AS AN ACTIVITY MANAGED BY TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME AND THE POSSIBLE RE-USE OF SEIZED ASSETS FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Ministry of Economic Development DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING – ITALIAN PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE COUNTERFEITING AS AN ACTIVITY MANAGED BY TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME AND THE POSSIBLE RE-USE OF SEIZED ASSETS FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Ministry of Economic Development DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST COUNTERFEITING – ITALIAN PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE COUNTERFEITING AS AN ACTIVITY MANAGED BY TRANSNATIONAL ORGANISED CRIME AND THE POSSIBLE RE-USE OF SEIZED ASSETS FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute Copyright Ministry of Economic Development Directorate-General for the Fight Against Counterfeiting – Italian Patent and Trademark Office Via Molise 19 - 00187 Rome [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.uibm.gov.it © Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, 2014 ISBN: 9788890749131 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed by any means, including photocopies, microfilm or any other medium, without the written permission of the owner of the Copyright Study commissioned and funded by Directorate-General for the Fight Against Counterfeiting – Italian Patent and Trademark Office (DGLC-UIBM) Ministry of Economic Development Carried out by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Directorate-General for the Fight Against Counterfeiting – Italian Patent and Trademark Office working group: Gianluca Scarponi, Paola Riccio, Enrico Maccallini UNICRI working group: Marco Musumeci, Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia, Elena D’Angelo Our thanks go to the following experts, law enforcement agencies and National Administrations for their collaboration: the National Agency for the Administration of Confiscated Assets (ANBSC), Lino Busà, Benoit Godart, Pietro Grasso, Gioacchino Polimeni, Fausto Zuccarelli, the Italian Financial Police. Translated by PSG Translations CONTENTS FOREWORD ............................................................................ page 5 COUNTERFEITING AS AN ACTIVITY MANAGED BY TRANSNATIONAL 1° ORGANISED CRIME PREFACE............................................................................... page 13 METHODOLOGY ................................................................... page 17 Note on methodology ..........................................................page 17 Sources ...............................................................................page 17 Quantitative analysis: scope of the phenomenon ................page 22 Quantitative analysis: examination of case studies .............page 24 THE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK ............................................ page 27 Defining the dangers of counterfeiting .................................page 27 1. The scale of counterfeiting in Italy ...........................page 27 2. The social hazards of counterfeiting .......................page 32 Organised crime: which definition? ......................................page 36 1. Transnational organised crime ................................page 36 2. Organised crime in Italy: an overview .....................page 41 Factors of attraction for criminal organisations ....................page 48 MAPPING OF ORGANISED CRIME’S INVOLVEMENT IN COUNTERFEITING OFFENCES IN ITALY ............................ page 55 Criminal management of counterfeiting ...............................page 55 1. The production phase and supply of raw materials ...........................................................page 57 2. How goods are handled, delivered and distributed ................................................................page 60 3. The main types of counterfeit goods .......................page 66 4. The role of transnational organised crime ...............page 69 5. Profile of local criminal organizations: relations between criminal organisations and the typology of criminal networks involved ....................................................page 77 6. The crime routes: origin, transit and destination. ....page 87 7. Technology used by criminal networks and counter-strategies ...................................................page 89 Links with other serious crimes ...........................................page 95 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................... page 101 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................. page 105 THE POSSIBLE RE-USE OF ASSETS SEIZED TO CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS 2° INVOLVED IN COUNTERFEITING ACTIVITIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH INTRODUCTION ...................................................................page 113 THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/UNICRI RESEARCH PROJECT ........................................................page 115 PROFILE OF THE NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF CONFISCATED ASSETS ................page 119 Responsibilities of the Agency during the judicial phase, from seizure to final confiscation .......................................page 122 After the definitive confiscation order: how the confiscated assets are reallocated and managed ................................page 123 Monitoring the reallocated assets ......................................page 126 The confiscated assets ......................................................page 126 IDENTIFYING PROPERTIES SEIZED TO MAFIA COUNTERFEITING RINGS FOR THEIR POSSIBLE RE-USE TO PROMOTE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ...... page 133 The Camorra .....................................................................page 137 The ‘Ndrangheta ................................................................page 141 DATA SHEETS ..................................................................... page 145 CONCLUSIONS ................................................................... page 147 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................. page 151 INDEX OF ACRONYMS ....................................................... page 155 FOREWORD During the majority of the many seminars held on the subject of counterfeiting, whether the discussion focuses on figures, on the analysis of consumer behaviour, on the damage created to business or even on a debate on industrial law, the listener will certainly hear at least two words and one issue that crops up again and again. “Innovation” is the word most frequently uttered by the most up-to-date and confident of speakers, perhaps with examples of its usage taken from the results of various web search engines. This will certainly be followed by “Synergy”, usually mentioned several times by the representatives of public institutions in an attempt to obviate the individualistic ethos that is a characteristic of any public body. The best seminars, however, will explore complex arguments aimed at reconstructing the somewhat ancient origins of counterfeiting. Some experts go back as far as the Renaissance, some to mediaeval times, and others even recount myths and legends from the ancient classical world. Their aim is basically to show how the market of fraud is more or less as old as civilisation itself. It is a plague that has always afflicted human economic activity, both ancient and modern. Behind this reasoning, there is a sincere desire to recognise the gravity of counterfeiting, almost as if there was a need to justify the commitment shown by all players – public and private – in combating this illegal activity. The results to date may have been important but they have yet to resolve the problem. Ultimately, however, I consider this approach to be rather counter-productive. It instils in the listener the doubt that at the end of the day all efforts are in vain, because since time immemorial where there has been commerce, there has been counterfeiting. But on closer inspection, counterfeiting as we know it today has no precedent in history. The quantity of counterfeit goods is vast. They have infiltrated almost all the world’s markets. Any product that a consumer or company can buy on the legal market can also be manufactured illegally. These are the real characteristics of modern-day counterfeiting, which can be traced back to a criminal activity that started in the 1970s. 7 The growth in criminal operations and the overdevelopment of counterfeiting has one overriding, undisputed player: transnational organised crime. Large quantities of cash to invest or reinvest, flexible, dynamic organisations with historic roots in certain territories, a consolidated hierarchy with a dense global network of criminal cells that has effectively internationalised the illegal trafficking of goods and the exploitation of personal criminal knowledge and experience to operate through tried and tested trade routes and channels of corruption: all these factors are available to the world of organised crime which in recent decades has substantially modified its configuration. Its sphere of operation and influence has now extended to encroach upon increasingly remunerative, antisocial areas
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Condannati Per Camorra, Scarcerati Di Fabio Postiglione SENTENZA SALVATORE D’ABUNDO E GENNARO ESPOSITO
    mercoledì 30 marzo 2011 CRONACA DI NAPOLI 3 IL RIESAME GENNARO FERRO, FRATELLO DEL CAPOCLAN GAETANO BENEDUCE, A CASA PER MOTIVI DI SALUTE Traffico di sostanze stupefacenti, ottiene i domiciliari Tre perizie, una lotta estenuante al Riesame e alla fine la decisione di dell’operazione “Penelope” portata a termine dai carabinieri del concedere gli arresti domiciliari nonostante le gravi accuse: comando provinciale di Napoli e della compagnia di Pozzuoli contro associazione a delinquere finalizzata al traffico di droga aggravata dal affiliati al clan Beneduce-Longobardi. Associazione mafiosa, estorsioni, metodo mafioso. Si tratta di Gennaro Ferro, fratello del capoclan detenzione di armi, tentato omicidi sono i reati contestati a vario titolo Gaetano Beneduce, 60 anni, considerato capo della cosca di Pozzuoli. I ai destinatari dei provvedimenti emessi su richiesta dei pm della Dda di difensori di Ferro, Bruno Carafa e Domenico De Rosa, sono riusciti a Napoli Antonello Ardituro, Gloria Sanseverino e Raffaella Capasso. dimostrare che il loro assistito era assolutamente incompatibile con il L’operazione rappresenta il completamento di una indagine che nel regime carcerario. E così alla fine ci sono riusciti a botta di perizie, ben 2003 portò all'arresto di 40 esponenti della cosca per estorsioni al tre che alla fine hanno dato ragione alla loro tesi. Ferro fu arrestato mercato ittico di Pozzuoli. Sono coinvolti esponenti delle due “famiglie” nella retata che il 24 giugno portò all’azzeramento della cosca che ha che presero il sopravvento nell'area flegrea nel 1997 a conclusione di un terrorizzato per mesi, per anni commercianti e residente della zona sanguinoso scontro con i rivali del clan Sebastiano-Bellofiore.
    [Show full text]
  • Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah.” Master’S Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010
    http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com g/s/i is an annual peer-reviewed journal which publishes research on gendered identities and the ways they intersect with and produce Italian politics, culture, and society by way of a variety of cultural productions, discourses, and practices spanning historical, social, and geopolitical boundaries. Title: Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra: A Politically Incorrect Use of Neapolitan Identities and Queer Masculinities? Journal Issue: gender/sexuality/italy, 2 (2015) Author: Marcello Messina, Universidade Federal do Acre Publication date: July 2015 Publication info: gender/sexuality/Italy, “Open Contributions” Permalink: http://www.gendersexualityitaly.com/matteo-garrones-gomorra/ Author Bio: Marcello Messina is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Federal do Acre, Brazil. He is recipient of the PNPD post-doctoral bursary from CAPES (Brazil) and of the Endeavour Research Fellowship (Australia – Macquarie University). He is also active as a composer and musicologist. Abstract: Taking as a starting point John Champagne’s recent argument about the queer representations of Italian masculinity contained in Garrone’s Gomorra, this paper aims to connect the queer masculinity of the film’s characters with the negative judgement on their lives and actions suggested by the film. In particular, it will be argued that queerness is used alongside the Neapolitan- ness of the characters to portray them as Others, in order to alienate the audience from them. In other words, it will be suggested that the film does not celebrate the queerness of the characters, but uses it as a means to portray them as deviant to a non-Neapolitan, heterosexual audience. Copyright Information g/s/i is published online and is an open-access journal.
    [Show full text]
  • La-Banda-Della-Magliana.Pdf
    INDICE 1. La Banda della Magliana.................................................................................................................... 2. La struttura criminale della Banda della Magliana............................................................................. 3. Banda della Magliana......................................................................................................................... 4. Una Banda tra mafia, camorra e servizi segreti.................................................................................. 5. I rapporti tra la Banda della Magliana e Licio Gelli........................................................................... 6. I ricatti della Banda............................................................................................................................ 7. Gli intrecci pericolosi della Banda della Magliana............................................................................ 8. Dall’assassinio di Carmine Pecorelli alla fuga di Calvi..................................................................... 9. La mala romana e la Mafia................................................................................................................. 10. Vita e morte della gang romana........................................................................................................ 11. Banda della Magliana: i padroni di Roma........................................................................................ 12. Omicidio di Roberto Calvi..............................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Sul Concetto Di “Contronome” in Gomorra Di Roberto Saviano
    ONOMÀSTICA 4 (2018): 49–62 | RECEPCIÓ 7.1.2018 | ACCEPTACIÓ 27.7.2018 Sul conceto di “contronome” in Gomorra di Roberto Saviano Giacomo Giuntoli [email protected] Abstract: Nel 2006 Mondadori pubblica Gomorra, libro di Roberto Saviano che presto diventa un caso editoriale fnendo per varcare anche i confni nazionali. Alcuni fra gli aspeti a torto meno studiati di questo romanzo sono i nomi presenti in esso e un con- ceto che merita di essere con atenzione analizzato, quello di “contronome”, cioè il soprannome che gli afliati alle cosche mafose danno ai membri di spicco. Questo è un conceto fondamentale per comprendere la rifessione onomastica che sta alla base del libro di Saviano. L*obietivo di questo saggio è spiegare questo conceto complesso atraverso alcuni esempi sia onomastici che toponomastici come quelli di Francesco Schiavone, deto “Sandokan” o di Las Vegas, una zona degradata di Napoli Nord che prende il nome dalla famosa cità americana. Parole chiave: Roberto Saviano, onomastica leteraria, toponomastica, “contronome”, soprannome, leteratura italiana On the Concept of “Countername” in Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra Abstract: In 2006 Mondadori published Gomorra, a book by Roberto Saviano that soon became a literary sensation and thanks to which the young Italian writer became fa- mous all over the world. Some of the least studied aspects of this fction are prop- er names and a concept that deserves to be carefully analyzed, that of “contronome” (countername). “Contronome” refers to the nickname that the members of the mafa gangs used to give to their most important members. Tis is a fundamental concept to understand the onomastic refection that underlies Saviano’s book.
    [Show full text]
  • Sicily's Ancient Landscapes & Timeless Traditions 2021
    YOUR O.A.T. ADVENTURE TRAVEL PLANNING GUIDE® Sicily’s Ancient Landscapes & Timeless Traditions 2021 Small Groups: 8-16 travelers—guaranteed! (average of 13) Overseas Adventure Travel ® The Leader in Personalized Small Group Adventures on the Road Less Traveled 1 Dear Traveler, At last, the world is opening up again for curious travel lovers like you and me. And the O.A.T. Sicily’s Ancient Landscapes & Timeless Traditions itinerary you’ve expressed interest in will be a wonderful way to resume the discoveries that bring us so much joy. You might soon be enjoying standout moments like these: Who doesn’t love to eat in Italy? But Sicilian food, which is heavily influenced by the Arabs who thrived here, is in a league of its own. Sample the local flavors when you visit the Tunisian-inflected town of Mazara del Vallo and share a traditional Sicilian lunch with a local family. As you savor the home-cooked fare, you’ll learn how the city’s identity continues to evolve, and the vital role of the local fishing industry. You’ll also visit a home of a very different sort, one that traveler Carol Bowman described as “a house full of hope.” It’s Casa di Maria, an organization (and Grand Circle Foundation partner) established by a family in Catania to provide a loving home for children who are refugees or victims of neglect and domestic violence. The daughter-in-law of the founders (Sergio and Carmela) will enlighten you about Sicily’s foster care system. And you’ll meet more of the Casa’s extended family, including a young Nigerian woman who literally showed up on Sicily’s shores with nothing and grew up here, and hear her harrowing—but ultimately inspiring—story.
    [Show full text]
  • Ercolano, Naples
    University of Bath PHD Civil society and the anti-pizzo movement: the case of Ercolano, Naples Bowkett, Chris Award date: 2017 Awarding institution: University of Bath Link to publication Alternative formats If you require this document in an alternative format, please contact: [email protected] General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 07. Oct. 2021 Civil society and the anti-pizzo movement: the case of Ercolano, Naples Christopher Bowkett A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Bath Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies September 2017 COPYRIGHT Attention is drawn to the fact that copyright of this thesis/portfolio rests with the author and copyright of any previously published materials included may rest with third parties. A copy of this thesis/portfolio has been supplied on condition that anyone who consults it understands that they must not copy it or use material from it except as permitted by law or with the consent of the author or other copyright owners, as applicable.
    [Show full text]
  • Donne E Potere: Nuovi Ruoli Femminili Nell’Organizzazione Camorristica
    Corso di laurea in Comunicazione e società DONNE E POTERE: NUOVI RUOLI FEMMINILI NELL’ORGANIZZAZIONE CAMORRISTICA Relatore: Prof. Fernando DALLA CHIESA Tesi di laurea di: Viola BIANCHESSI Matricola: 797010 Anno accademico 2013/2014 INDICE RINGRAZIAMENTI ……………………………….……………pag. 3 PREFAZIONE …………………………….…………..…………..pag. 5 I. DONNA E AMBIENTE SOCIALE 1.1 La camorra…………………………………………………….…..pag. 8 1.2 Società clan e famiglia…………………………………………...pag. 12 1.3 L’ambiente e la storia in cui nasce la donna camorrista…………pag. 15 1.3.1 La donna camorrista nell’Ottocento…………….….pag. 15 1.3.2 La donna camorrista oggi……………………..……pag. 17 1.4 Profili delle donne camorriste…………………………………...pag. 20 II. DONNE DI CAMORRA, COSA NOSTRA E ‘NDRANGHETA A CONFRONTO 2.1 Donne “invisibili”………………………………………….....….pag. 25 2.2 Strutture organizzative…………………………………………...pag. 26 2.3 Figure femminili a confronto…………………………………….pag. 29 2.3.1 Ruolo materno e riproduzione della cultura………..pag. 29 2.3.2 Violenza agita…………………………………….....pag.31 2.3.3 Custodi del potere maschile…………………..……pag. 34 III. DONNE E POTERE 3.1 La scalata ai vertici………………………………………………pag. 37 3.2 Capesse: casi empirici……………………………………………pag. 40 3.3 Donne “emancipate”…?............................................................... pag. 44 IV. DONNE DI CAMORRA E PENTITISMO 4.1 Collaboratori e testimoni di giustizia: l’evoluzione giuridica……pag. 47 4.1.1 Carmelina Prisco………………………….………..pag. 50 4.2 Donne che “non parlano”………………………………………...pag. 52 4.3 Le prime collaboratrici di giustizia……………………...………..pag.54 4.3.1 Anna Carrino e Angela Barra………………………pag. 55 4.3.2 Antonella Madonna………………………………...pag. 57 - 1 - CONCLUSIONI ………………………………………………….pag. 59 BIBLIOGRAFIA ………….……….....………………….……….pag. 62 SITOGRAFIA E ALTRE FONTI ……...…………………….…pag. 64 - 2 - RINGRAZIAMENTI Vorrei esprimere i miei ringraziamenti alla professoressa Gabriella Gribaudi e al Dottor Isaia Sales.
    [Show full text]
  • Commissione Parlamentare D'inchiesta
    SENATO DELLA REPUBBLICA CAMERA DEI DEPUTATI XIV LEGISLATURA COMMISSIONE PARLAMENTARE D’INCHIESTA SUL FENOMENO DELLA CRIMINALITA` ORGANIZZATA MAFIOSA O SIMILARE RESOCONTO STENOGRAFICO DELLA 73ª SEDUTA MERCOLEDI` 20 LUGLIO 2005 Presidenza del Presidente Roberto CENTARO TIPOGRAFIA DEL SENATO (320) Senato della Repubblica–2– Camera dei deputati XIV LEGISLATURA – DISEGNI DI LEGGE E RELAZIONI - DOCUMENTI INDICE Seguito della discussione del documento su Napoli PRESIDENTE: CENTARO (FI), senatore ..............Pag. 3, 6, 14 e passim BOBBIO (AN), senatore ...............46, ...., ...., e passim DALLA CHIESA (Margh-U), senatore .... 19 FLORINO (AN), senatore ..............37, 43, 57 LUMIA (DS-U), onorevole .............23, 37, 52 e passim NAPOLI Angela (AN), onorevole ........ 43 NOVI (FI), senatore .................. 14 SINISI (Margh-U), onorevole ........... 3, 6 Sull’ordine dei lavori PRESIDENTE: CENTARO (FI), senatore ..............Pag.63 LUMIA (DS-U), onorevole ............. 62 Senato della Repubblica–3– Camera dei deputati XIV LEGISLATURA – DISEGNI DI LEGGE E RELAZIONI - DOCUMENTI I lavori hanno inizio alle ore 20,35. Seguito della discussione del documento su Napoli PRESIDENTE. L’ordine del giorno reca il seguito della discussione sul documento di Napoli, sospesa nella seduta del 12 luglio scorso. SINISI. Voglio anzitutto ringraziare la Commissione per avere voluto accogliere la proposta di affrontare la questione riguardante Napoli e la sua Provincia non attraverso una rituale discussione della pura documen- tazione acquisita all’esito delle audizioni, ma affrontando un dibattito, an- che con celerita`. Credo sia doveroso esprimere un ringraziamento per avere accettato questo metodo. Signor Presidente, articolero` il mio intervento in tre parti: la prima riguarda la bozza di relazione che ci e` stata presentata; la seconda con- cerne proposte integrative rispetto alla relazione; la terza parte riguarda proposte specifiche di intervento.
    [Show full text]
  • Investigating Italy's Past Through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and Tv
    INVESTIGATING ITALY’S PAST THROUGH HISTORICAL CRIME FICTION, FILMS, AND TV SERIES Murder in the Age of Chaos B P ITALIAN AND ITALIAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND ITALIAN ITALIAN Italian and Italian American Studies Series Editor Stanislao G. Pugliese Hofstra University Hempstead , New York, USA Aims of the Series This series brings the latest scholarship in Italian and Italian American history, literature, cinema, and cultural studies to a large audience of spe- cialists, general readers, and students. Featuring works on modern Italy (Renaissance to the present) and Italian American culture and society by established scholars as well as new voices, it has been a longstanding force in shaping the evolving fi elds of Italian and Italian American Studies by re-emphasizing their connection to one another. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14835 Barbara Pezzotti Investigating Italy’s Past through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series Murder in the Age of Chaos Barbara Pezzotti Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Italian and Italian American Studies ISBN 978-1-137-60310-4 ISBN 978-1-349-94908-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-94908-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016948747 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed.
    [Show full text]
  • Iovino, Serenella. "Bodies of Naples: a Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity." Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
    Iovino, Serenella. "Bodies of Naples: A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity." Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. 13–46. Environmental Cultures. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 2 Oct. 2021. <http:// dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474219488.ch-001>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 2 October 2021, 17:51 UTC. Copyright © Serenella Iovino 2016. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. 1 Bodies of Naples A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity In the heart of the city of Naples there is a place with a curious name: Largo Corpo di Napoli. This little square opens up like an oyster at a point where the decumani, the Greek main streets, become a tangle of narrow medieval lanes and heavy gray-and-white buildings. Like an oyster, this square has a pearl: An ancient statue of the Nile, popularly known as Corpo di Napoli, the body of Naples. The story of this statue is peculiar. Dating back to the second or third centuries, when it was erected to mark the presence of an Egyptian colony in the city, the statue disappeared for a long time and was rediscovered in the twelfth century. Its head was missing, and the presence of children lying at its breasts led people to believe that it represented Parthenope, the virgin nymph to whom the foundation of the city is mythically attributed. In 1657 the statue was restored, and a more suitable male head made it clear that the reclining figure symbolized the Egyptian river and the children personifications of its tributaries.
    [Show full text]
  • Analysis of Organized Crime: Camorra
    PREGLEDNI ČLANCI UDK 343.974(450) Prihvaćeno: 12.9.2018. Elvio Ceci, PhD* The Constantinian University, New York ANALYSIS OF ORGANIZED CRIME: CAMORRA Abstract: Organized crime is a topic that deserves special attention, not just in criminal science. In this paper, the author analyzes Italian crime organizations in their origins, features and relationships between them. These organizations have similar patterns that we will show, but the main one is the division between government and governance. After the introductory part, the author gives a review of the genesis of the crime, but also of the main functions of criminal organizations: control of the territory, monopoly of violence, propensity for mediation and offensive capability. The author also described other organizations that act on the Italian soil (Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta, Napolitan Camora i Apulian Sacra Coroina Unita). The central focus of the paper is on the Napolitan mafia, Camorra, and its most famous representative – Cutolo. In this part of the paper, the author describes this organization from the following aspects: origin of Camorra, Cutulo and the New Organized Camorra, The decline of the New Organized Camorra and Cutolo: the figure of leader. Key words: mafia, governance, government, Camorra, smuggling. INTRODUCTION Referring to the “culturalist trend” in contemporary criminology, for which the “criminal issue” must include what people think about crime, certain analysts study- ing this trend, such as Benigno says, “it cannot be possible face independently to cultural processes which define it”.1 Concerning the birth of criminal organizations, a key break occured in 1876 when the left party won the election and the power of the State went to a new lead- ership.
    [Show full text]
  • Nomi E Storie Delle Vittime Innocenti Delle Mafie
    Nomi e storie delle vittime innocenti delle mafie a cura di Marcello Scaglione e dei ragazzi del Presidio “Francesca Morvillo” di Libera Genova Realizzato in occasione della mostra “900 Nomi vittime di mafia dal 1893 ad oggi” inaugurata ad Imperia il 21 Marzo 2016 in occasione della XXI Giornata della memoria e dell’impegno - ”Ponti di memoria, luoghi di impegno”. I nomi presenti nella mostra sono quelli accertati fino all'anno 2015, ed in particolare quelli letti a Bologna durante la XX Giornata della Memoria e dell'Impegno in ricordo delle vittime innocenti delle mafie (21 marzo 2015). Il lavoro di ricerca, inizialmente limitato a quell'elenco, è stato poi implementato e aggiornato, comprendendo quindi le storie delle vittime innocenti i cui nomi sono stati letti durante la XXI Giornata della Memoria e dell'Impegno (21 marzo 2016). Sarà nostro impegno e cura eseguire successivamente gli aggiornamenti necessari. Siamo inoltre disponibili a intervenire sulle singole storie, laddove dovessero essere ravvisati errori e/o imprecisioni. EMANUELE NOTABARTOLO, 01/02/1893 Nato in una famiglia aristocratica palermitana, presto rimane orfano di entrambi i genitori. Cresciuto in Sicilia, nel 1857 si trasferisce prima a Parigi, poi in Inghilterra, dove conosce Michele Amari e Mariano Stabile, due esuli siciliani che lo influenzeranno molto. Avvicinatosi all'economia e alla storia, diventa sostenitore del liberalismo conservatore (quindi vicino alla Destra storica). Dal 1862 Emanuele Notarbartolo diventa prima reggente, poi titolare, del Banco di Sicilia, al quale si dedica a tempo pieno a partire dal 1876, salvandolo dal fallimento in seguito all'Unità d'Italia. Il suo lavoro al Banco di Sicilia inizia a inimicargli molta gente.
    [Show full text]