In two special Aljazeera reports, the tragedy of African women victim of sex trafficking is investigated, and in particular their situation in southern Italy, in the ghettos near Napoli.

The Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) has seized a huge amount of cocaine in La Spiezia (in the Liguria region of Northern Italy). The drug was hidden behind a false wall in a container from Colombia directed to Genoa via Gioia Tauro, a seaport heavily controlled by the ‘Ndrangheta.

One of the main Italian newspaper today offers an article on female homicides in Ciudad Juàrez and the increasing presence of female offenders.

an al Jazeera site linking articles and broadcasts on Mexico and Central America

The ‘Ndrangheta, based in Calabria in the far south of Italy, is now believed to be the most powerful of Italy’s four mafia organisations.

An alleged leader of Italy’s feared ‘Ndrangheta mafia was arrested by police after being found hiding in a hi-tech underground bunker accessible only via a remote-controlled trap door.

The rise of the Zetas as not just a Mexican menace but as a significant power in the international drug trade has been helped along by its growing links to a sprawling Italian mafia group known as the ‘Ndrangheta

An investigation exposing how Italy’s most ruthless organised crime syndicate has taken over one of the country’s most beautiful cities, killing its citizens and poisoning its water, making massive amounts of money and effectively operating an alternative government.  ‘Italy’s Bloodiest Mafia: The Camorra’, documentary by the BBC, on air on the 8th of August on … ITALY’S BLOODIEST MAFIA: THE CAMORRA

CALL FOR PAPERS for the panel “Transnational Crime: Difficulties of Responding to the Evasive Beast” to be presented at 2012 International BISA-ISA conference in Edinburgh 2012. Deadline for the submission of abstracts is August 27, 2011. Abstracts should be sent to: yuliya.zabyelina@sis.unitn.it Transnational Crime: Difficulties of Responding to the Evasive Beast. The ways in which … CRIMINAL ENCLAVES IN LICIT ECONOMIES: EXPLORING THE CRIMINAL CONSEQUENCES OF SHUTTLE TRADE

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