Duisberg massacre leader jailed in Calabria…’ndrangheta trial

According to the Italian National Anti-Mafia Directorate Mafia groups are increasingly infiltrating the gambling business.

JOINT SESSIONS, ANTWERP 2012 Changes to the paper proposal process Please note that the call for papers for the 2012 Joint Sessions of Workshops in Antwerp will be going out on 1 August 2011. This is slightly later than usual as this year the system for proposing papers for Workshops is changing. There will be … ECPR JOINT SESSIONS OF WORKSHOPS

Here we go again!

There was a two=part interview in the Guardian with her. She’s the widow of Arkan.

Report from North American Congress on Latin america on La Nacha: a major female organised crime figure from the 1920s. Some discussion of contemporary female drug traffickers too.

More than a thousand immigrants have reached Lampedusa in the last few days, included pregnant women and children. In one of the boats the engine had broken down and a fire was about to break out.  

Organised crime can be fatal.

Your blogger has become your bloggers! Several new bloggers have taken up the baton/mouse/whatever. There is also a facebook page for the Standing Group on Organised Crime, which we will try to integrate with the blog if mastery of tweetdeck achieves this. Serious partying at the bar Cuba in Ohrid last night does not seem … SUMMER SCHOOL GETS SERIOUS!

British International Studies Association and the International Studies Association Joint International Conference Edinburgh 2012. Theme: Diversity in the Discipline: Tension or Opportunity in Responding to Global Challenges Dates: 20th to 22nd June 2012 Joint programme chairs are Professor Colin McInnes Aberystwyth University (BISA) and Professor Karen Rasler Indiana University (ISA) The conference theme/subject is announced … 2012 INTERNATIONAL BISA-ISA CONFERENCE