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In collaboration with the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Naples and the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, our Standing Group on Organised Crime is holding its 5th Conference celebrating its 25th birthday.
The Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Economic Crime, University of Salerno and the Department of Economics and Statistics (DISES), University of Salerno
About the conference
The Conference follows previous editions held in Naples (2015), Bath (2017), Sofia (2019), and Pisa (2022). This two-day conference will take place in the heart of Naples on 10 – 11 December.
The Conference will present the latest research on organised crime, in all its different aspects, manifestations and contexts, encouraging maximum exchanges. It will particularly address the challenges criminal organisations and their activities pose to the state, society and the economy at local, national and international levels. Serving as an interdisciplinary forum, the event will foster discussion and collaboration on diverse aspects of organised crime, including environmental crime, cybercrime, money laundering, mafias, and cartels.
All researchers, practitioners and policy makers, regardless of discipline, nationality or rank, are warmly invited to present their original research and projects at this unique-in person international conference that places organised crime at the centre of its discussions and analysis.
Keynotes and roundtables will be in English while panels and sections may be in Italian, English, French, or Spanish to encourage broad participation and exchange.
For more information, please contact sgconferences@ecpr.eu.
The ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC) was established following a successful panel at the Joint Sessions in Grenoble, France, in 2001. The panel highlighted the need for both more concrete, in-depth research on organised crime and related themes, and closer collaboration between practitioners, policymakers, and academics. The Standing Group continues to work in this spirit.
Its main objectives remain:
To date, it continues to organise events (including Summer Schools with the UNODC, panels, and general conferences) and encourage publications. It is also a partner in the 24-hour Conference on Global Organized Crime project with Global Initiative, CIROC and IASOC.
Felia Allum University of Bath
Luca Ranieri Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Luciano Brancaccio University of Napals
Department of Social Sciences | Università Federico II, Naples, Italy
Research in the Department is highly multidisciplinary and innovative, focusing on two broad areas. The first, public policies, social inequalities, and welfare, brings together sociologists, historians, legal scholars, political scientists, and statisticians. The second, communication and digital cultures, features research groups that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, including Anthropology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology.
The Department of Social Sciences offers a three-year doctoral programme in Social Sciences and Statistics, emphasising the methodological and analytical tools required for social research. PhD candidates are encouraged to adopt a multidisciplinary approach in designing and developing their research projects and doctoral theses.
Teaching and research activities of the doctoral programme are supported by the majority of the Department’s staff and an advisory board composed of renowned Italian and international scholars.
The 5th Conference on Organised Crime will be hosted by the Department of Social Sciences, in Università Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Participants attending and appearing in the Academic Programme must register and pay through our online system.
If you are attending as an observer, please select the Observer Package when registering.
Whether presenting, participating, or observing, attendees must be a member on the Standing Group on Organised Crime. Membership is free and you can join here.
All prices shown include 22% VAT.
Student: €128
Student: €190
All participants must pay a fee. Your space is not secured until your registration is paid in full.
Dr Carolina Sampó
Department of International Relations and Global History
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology
Complutense University of Madrid
Carolina Sampó is a professor at the Department of International Relations and Global History of the Complutense University of Madrid. She has previously served as Research Coordinator for the Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business and Legal Sciences at the Camilo Jose Cela University and as a professor in the Criminology and Security degree program at the same university. She has also coordinated the Security Studies Group at Fundación Carolina. Sampó was an Assistant Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and taught at the University of Buenos Aires. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, an MA in International Studies, and a BA in Political Science.
Carolina has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in Spanish and English in highly regarded journals. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center (LACS) at the University of Maryland (UMD) from 2022 to 2023, and an Associate Researcher at that center until May 2024.
Professor Sampó has extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has taught at numerous institutions, including the University of Maryland, the University of Buenos Aires, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, and the National University of La Plata, among others.
Her research focuses on transnational organized crime, gender, and violence particularly in Latin America.
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