Credibility in Court: Communicative Practices in the Camorra Trials (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) - Marco Jaquemet

The Camorra trials in Naples involved more than a thousand people charged with belonging to a criminal organization, the Nuova Camorra Organizzata. After some key witnesses turned against their former associates and collaborated with the Justice Department, more than 800 people were convicted, but in the appeal their credibility was destroyed and the majority were acquitted. To investigate this dramatic reversal of the defendants' convictions, Jacquemet combines analysis of talk and power technologies with a reflection on truth and credibility as communicative representations.

The Camorra - Tom Behan

The Camorra is the Neopolitan version of the Mafia. It has existed since the 19th century and has grown substantially since the 1980 earthquake in Naples, when it took a major role in rebuilding the city and hence becoming the city's dominant economic power. This book charts the rise of the Camorra through drugs, brutality, poverty and its future and how it might be combated.

See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime - Tom Behan

A century before the emergence of its cousin, the Sicilian Mafia, the criminal organization known as “The Camorra” was establishing a deadly grip on Naples and Campania. Today, their influence is as strong as ever. Tom Behan’s vivid and riveting account of the Camorra and its shadowy leaders reveals a crime syndicate of extraordinary power and resources. The are involved in the major political parties, the police, judiciary, administrators, and leading figures in the business community. Behan shows how all levels of the Italian state—including the judiciary—are so corrupt and in hock to the Camorra, that all reformist solutions are bankrupt.

Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System - Roberto Saviano

Starred Review. Saviano has created a perfectly realized, morally compelling journey through the brutal world of contemporary Italian mob life in this ceaselessly violent tale of the Camorra, a network of thugs, exploiters and killers who run Naples and the surrounding countryside. Armed with a police band radio, Saviano visits one crime scene after another, recording the final words and circumstances of the dying and dead. The murders described are savage, cruel and senseless: The head... hadn't been cut off with a hatchet, a clean blow, but with a metal grinder: the kind of circular saw welders use to polish soldering. The worst possible tool, and thus the most obvious choice. Jewiss's translation of Saviano's intense prose flows beautifully from the pestilence and degradation of everyday life in the teeming Neapolitan slums to the futile efforts of the police to control the rich, organic chaos that is the only way the Camorra know how to live. A stunning achievement, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the state of contemporary Europe.