The social reuse of assets in Mafia-controlled territory in Italy (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Phillips, A. (2023, June). The social reuse of assets in Mafia-controlled territory in Italy. Paper presented at Due process or due proceeds? The future of confiscation., University of Queensland, Australia

Dealing with confiscated assets – The use of dirty money to support victims of crime

Embracing your impostor syndrome: Advice for shifting between disciplines (2022)
Other
Phillips, A. (2022). Embracing your impostor syndrome: Advice for shifting between disciplines. [https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/embracing-your-impostor-syndrome-advice-shifting-between-disciplines]

Changing disciplines can appear impossible at times, but it’s not, especially if academics embrace the mindset that disciplinary boundaries are often somewhat artificial.

Dr Amber Phillips: ‘Giving confiscated mafia assets back to the community is enormously powerful’ (2022)
Journal Article
Phillips, A. (2022). Dr Amber Phillips: ‘Giving confiscated mafia assets back to the community is enormously powerful’

In the latest in a series of interviews with leading figures involved in the research and investigation of organised crime, Policing Insight’s Chris Allen spoke to Dr Amber Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of the West of Eng... Read More about Dr Amber Phillips: ‘Giving confiscated mafia assets back to the community is enormously powerful’.

Book review: The Invisible Camorra: Neapolitan Crime Families Across Europe, by Felia Allum, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2016, 267 pp., $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501702457 (2019)
Journal Article
Phillips, A. (2019). Book review: The Invisible Camorra: Neapolitan Crime Families Across Europe, by Felia Allum, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2016, 267 pp., $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781501702457. Modern Italy, 24(4), 493-494. https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2019.47

Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime (2016)
Journal Article
Phillips, A. (2017). Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime. Trends in Organized Crime, 20(1-2), 179-195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-016-9285-0

The Calabrian mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is a hugely powerful international crime syndicate, with origins that can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. By far the least studied of Italy’s ‘big three’ mafias, socio-historical research on the ear... Read More about Corrado Alvaro and the Calabrian mafia: A critical case study of the use of literary and journalistic texts in research on Italian organized crime.