Education

Biography

Vincenzo Scalia was born in Palermo in 1970. He graduated in Political Since in 1995 at the University Of Bologna, Italy, in 1995. He holds a MA in Social and Political Theory from the University of East Anglia, and a PhD on Migration and Crime from the University of Palermo. He has published 4 books and more than 40 articles in Italian, English and Turkish, has taught in Italy, UK, Argentina, Mexico. He has also worked for NGOs and Local Governments in Italy.

Research Interest

Criminological Theories, Penology, Urban Security, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Policing

Scientific Activities

Publications

Books

1. Crime, Networks and Power: Transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
2. Le filiere criminale. Criminalità organizzata, rapporti di produzione, antimafia. Rome: Ediesse, 2016
3. Migranti, devianti e cittadini. Uno studio sui processi di esclusione sociale. Franco Angeli, Milan, 2005
4. Reato estinto. La giustizia minorile in Italia. ILA PALMA, Palermo, 2005

Articles

1. Acil Durum Devam EdiyorItalya Hapishanelerindeki Yabancilar, in Hapishaned, Engelli, Yabanci, Lgbti, Olmak, TCPS, Istanbul, 2015 (In Turkish)
2. Cose non solo loro. La criminalita’ organizzata nella Riviera romagnola, Polis, 3/2015, 221-50.
3. The rogue from within. The denial of torture in an Italian prison. Critical Criminology 3/2016, 445-57.
4. Un matrimonio che s’ha da fare: la criminologia critica e lo studio dei fenomeni mafiosi, in F. Tenorio Tagle (ed.), Ensayos en Honor a Massimo Pavarini, UNACIP, Ciudad del Mexico, pp 385-407
5. From the Octopus to the Spider's web. The structural transformation of Sicilian Cosa Nostra under postfordism, TIOC, 4/2010, 283-99
6. A Lesson in Tolerance? Juvenile Justice in Italy, Youth Justice, 1/2005, 33-43
7. “Supporting and Sanctioning. Foreign juveniles in the Bologna juvenile justice court”, in Queloz-F. Butikofer Repond-R. Brossard-B. Meyer Misch (edited by), Youth crime and juvenile justice. The challenge of ethnic diversity, Staempli, Bern, 2005, pp. 541-560.
8. “A lesson in tolerance? Juvenile justice in Italy”, in Youth Justice 2/2005, pp.33-43.
9. “The sweatshops of penality: Guantanamo, renditions and economic change”, Criminal Justice Matters, no.73, September 2008, pp.31-33.
10. “Just few rogues? Football, violence and politics in contemporary Italy”, in International Review for theSociology of Sport, 44/1, 2009, pp.41-53.
11. “From the octopus to the spider’s web. The structural transformation of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra” in Trends in Organized Crime, 13/4-2010, pp.283-297.
12. Between decentralization and new squads: the case of the Italian ronde, in International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, February 2012, Vol.4(2), pp.38-47.