Contesti violenti e clan di camorra

This contribution analyses Camorra groups and families as an emergent phenomenon within social and economic spaces, related to the violent regulation of legal and illegal markets. Camorra groups act as a wide family business: large kinship networks, intertwined with economic activities, often connected, through marriage strategies, to other violent families. Clans are mostly based on open entrepreneurial-type networks which operate in several economic sectors. For these reasons the characteristics of the camorra clans are strictly connected to the territorial context in which they emerge. The main objective of this contribution will be to analyse the characteristics, strategies and dynamics of the Camorra clans operating in four areas in Campania Region: 1. the area of Caserta, falling under the control of the Casalesi cartel; 2. the Northern and Eastern part of the Province of Naples; 3. the area comprised within the urban belt surrounding Naples; 4. Naples’ city centre. Furthermore, we intend to analyse the ways through which the use of violence shapes and affects the entrepreneurial model they adopt in the management of the various economic sectors in which the clans are involved.