Il welfare e il suo doppio : : percorsi etnografici nelle camorre del Casertano / / Alessandro Colletti.

• VerfasserIn: Colletti, Alessandro
• Place / Publishing House: Italy : : Ledizioni,, 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: Italian
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Much of the literary production on the Camorra focuses on the aspects of military control of the territory and on predatory activities in politics and economics. Less attention is paid to the social reproductive factors of organized crime groups. The aspects of mutuality and solidarity within the Camorra have never received a systematic and thorough observation. This research instead proposes the analysis of the elements of legitimacy and consensus of the Camorra groups in the territories in which they are established. Welfare and its double is a work that is articulated through a rich system that uses quantitative and ethnographic methodologies: an approach located at the meeting point between sociology and anthropology in the analysis of social policies, which uses unpublished and difficult judicial documents availability. A demanding field work in the Caserta area has made it possible to decipher the forms of social assistance present: public and mafia ones. The result is the panorama of a criminal group that ensures incredible protection against affiliates and their families, which competes with the protections offered by public welfare. However, the results of this study show that it is precisely in the territories most conditioned by the Mafia presence that new forms of social struggle are born. It is here, in fact - where criminal infiltrations affect the procurement of welfare services - that the most innovative social actions in defense of the weakest categories were born.