All Outputs (13)

Mapping the social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ‘social reuse’ of assets confiscated from organised crime groups is a practice gaining increasing influence worldwide. While a precise definition has yet to be established, the broad concept – that of reusing the proceeds of crime for the benefit... Read More about Mapping the social reuse of assets confiscated from organized crime.

A symbolic defeat? Exploring symbolism and failure in the social reuse of confiscated mafia real estate in Italy (2024)
Journal Article

Italy’s pioneering anti-mafia legislation allows confiscated assets to be handed over to civil society groups. The ‘symbolic’ benefits of this approach are much lauded, but ill-defined. In the context of increasing global interest in the social reuse... Read More about A symbolic defeat? Exploring symbolism and failure in the social reuse of confiscated mafia real estate in Italy.

The social reuse of assets in Mafia-controlled territory in Italy (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

Italy’s other ‘other mafia’: Remediation and representations of the ’ndrangheta (2023)
Book Chapter

It is generally agreed that public perceptions of organised crime are profoundly impacted by the mass media and popular culture, and that cultural representations play a major role in constructing dominant narratives. Furthermore, many scholars have... Read More about Italy’s other ‘other mafia’: Remediation and representations of the ’ndrangheta.

Italy’s ‘circle of legality’: The confiscation and social use of assets in the fight against the mafia (2023)
Book Chapter

In Italy the term ‘mafia’ is used to refer to a number of different criminal organisations, including (but not limited to): Sicily’s cosa nostra; the camorra (from the region of Campania); the Calabrian ’ndrangheta; and Puglia’s Sacra Corona Unita, a... Read More about Italy’s ‘circle of legality’: The confiscation and social use of assets in the fight against the mafia.

Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges (2023)
Book

Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations. This proudly interdisciplinary collection is built on the premise t... Read More about Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges.

Challenges in policing financial crime (2022)
Book Chapter

Law enforcement efforts to disrupt financial crime rest on a myriad of crime control policies which are designed outside of the interests of enforcement bodies. Neglecting to recognize the lived experiences of frontline officers threatens the effecti... Read More about Challenges in policing financial crime.

Embracing your impostor syndrome: Advice for shifting between disciplines (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine

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

Using tech (and a little empathy) to help anxious students (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine

Amber Phillips shares some high- and low-tech tips for supporting anxious students and improving inclusivity in the post-pandemic physical classroom

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

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’.

'Old Mafia' and 'New Mafia' in the Novels of Saverio Strati, 1957–1977 (2020)
Journal Article

Despite being recognised as Italy’s most powerful mafia, Calabria’s ’ndrangheta has long been dwarfed by its Sicilian and Neapolitan cousins in terms of cultural representations. Such representations, however, though frequently overlooked and ignored... Read More about 'Old Mafia' and 'New Mafia' in the Novels of Saverio Strati, 1957–1977.

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

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

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.