Seminar, March 22nd: Federico Varese, Mafias on the Move
08 Mar 2010
Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century and Irish Social Sciences Platform
Research Seminar Series
The ISS21 Crime and Social Justice research cluster presents
Mafias on the Move
Federico Varese, University of Oxford
22nd March 2010, 1-3pm, Windle WDL_ANLT, UCC
Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology at University of Oxford. His main research interests are the study of organised crime, corruption, Soviet criminal history, and the dynamics of altruistic behaviour. He has published widely in these areas, including Organized Crime (edited, Routledge, forthcoming 2010), as well as papers in Law and Society Review, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Political Studies, Cahiers du Monde Russe and Rationality & Society, and book chapters in edited volumes. His book The Russian Mafia (Oxford University Press) won the Ed Hewitt prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2002. He is currently working on the application of network analysis to criminal behaviour. His next book, Mafias on the Move, will appear with Princeton University Press in 2010. His seminar at Cork will draw on the material in the book.
ALL WELCOME
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