Federico Varese

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Research Associate and Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology

Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. He maintains active research links with the Centre in his capacity as Research Associate.



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F Varese, De Russische mafia (J.M. Meulenhoff 2004)

F Varese, 'Great Mobility' (2004) Times Literary Supplement '6   [Review]

F Varese, 'Has Fascism returned to Italy?' (2005) 60 Italian Politics & Society 87

F Varese, 'How Mafias Migrate: the case of the `Ndrangheta in Northern Italy' (2006) 40(2) Law and Society Review 411

F Varese, 'La mafia russa in Italia' (2005) Limes. Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica 229

F Varese, 'Mafia Transplantation' in J. Kornai, B. Rothstein, and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds), Creating Social Trust: Problems of Post-Socialist Transition (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)

F Varese, 'Messages from the Mafia' (2005) London Review of Books 31   [Review]

F Varese and Smith, A., 'Payment, Protection and Punishment: the Role of Information and Reputation in the Mafia' (2001) 13 Rationality and Society 387 [...]

Although listed as a second author (for alphabetic reasons), I have contributed the main idea, empirical motivation and information, and the basic game structure.


ISBN: 1043-4631

F Varese and M. Yaish, 'Resolute Heroes: the Rescue of Jews during the Nazi Occupation of Europe' (2005) 1.91736111111111 Archives Européenes de Sociologie 153

F Varese, 'Struktura mafioznykh gruppirovok’' (2004) 2 Panorama Issledovanij Politiki Prikam’ya 157 – 167 [...]

In Russian


F Varese, 'The Camorra Closely Observed' (2009) 10 Global Crime 262

F Varese, 'The Economics of the Camorra' (2006) Global Crime 268 [...]

Review Article


F Varese, The Russian Mafia. Private Protection in a New Market Economy (OUP 2001)

F Varese, 'The Secret History of Japanese Cinema: The Yakuza Movies' (2006) 7(1) Global Crime 105

F Varese, 'There is no place like Home. How the mafia finds it difficult to expand from its geographical base' (2001) Times Literary Supplement '3   [Review]

F Varese, 'Varieties of Protectors' in A. Amin and N.J.Thrift (eds), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader (Blackwell Publishing. 2004)

F Varese, '‘Clientelism’, ‘Corruption’, ‘Mafia’, ‘Principal-Agent Problem’, ‘State Capture’' in I. McLean (ed), Oxford Dictionary of Politics, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press 2003)


Interests

Research: Criminology, Organised crime, corruption, Soviet criminal history, and the dynamics of altruistic behaviour. He is currently working on the application of network analysis to criminal behaviour and a comparative study of Mafia groups.

Other details

Correspondence address:

Centre for Criminology
Manor Road Building
Manor Road
Oxford OX1 3UQ

Contact details:

other affiliation(s):

Department of Sociology

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