Personal Details

Title: Research Fellow

Contact Details

Email: paolo.campana@sociology.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 286 171

Paolo Campana

 

Paolo Campana joined the Extra Legal Governance Institute in September 2010. Previously he was Research Officer at the Centre for Criminology (University of Oxford: 2007), and then Research Associate at the same centre (2008-2010). He holds a PhD from the University of Turin. His work specialises in organised crime and forms of extra legal governance. Other areas of interest include corporate crime,  terrorism, news media, public opinion and quantitative research methods. He is currently working on the Neapolitan Camorra, on trafficking / smuggling of drugs and human beings into Europe, on the application of network techniques to the study of organised crime, and on issues of trust within criminal groups. His recent work appeared in the European Journal of Criminology, Trends in Organised Crime and Global Crime.

Peer- Reviewed Publications

Published in journals:

1. P. Campana (2011). “Eavesdropping on the Mob: the functional diversification of Mafia activities across territories”, European Journal of Criminology, 8:3, pp. 1-16.

To view this article click here:

http://www.crimspace.com/forum/topics/featured-content-eavesdropping

2. P. Campana and F. Varese (2011) “Listening to the Wire: Criteria and techniques for the quantitative analysis of phone intercepts”, Trends in Organized Crime, online first.  

3. P. Campana (2011) “Assessing the movement of criminal groups: some analytical remarks”, Global Crime, 12:3, pp. 207-217.

4. P. Campana (2008). “Cherry picking the news”, Polena, 3: pp. 120 – 127.

5. P. Campana (2007). “Beyond 9/11: Terrorism and Media in a Mid-term Period View (1998-2005)”, Global Crime, 8:4, pp. 381 – 392.

6. P. Campana (2007, in Italian). “La meritocrazia sulle pagine dei quotidiani”, Polena, 3, pp. 116-124 (The media coverage of meritocracy)

7. S. Testa, P. Campana and L. Ricolfi (2006, in Italian). “Effetto W. Il mestiere di pollster quando esiste un vincitore annunciato”, Polena, 2, pp. 135 - 143. (The W Effect. The pollster’s profession when there is an announced winner)

8. L. Ricolfi and P. Campana (2005). “Suicide Missions in the Palestinian Area: a New Database”,  Polena, 1, pp. 29 - 51.

 

Book chapters:

1. P. Campana (2008, in Italian). L’Italia vista dai quotidiani: la fine delle grandi riforme?, in L. Ricolfi (ed), Ostaggi dello Stato, Milan: Guerini e Associati, pp. 200-211 (The Italian reform process on the daily press).

2. P. Campana (2007, in Italian). I Palazzi della Politica: la rappresentanza parlamentare nella XV Legislatura, in P. Feltrin, P. Natale and L. Ricolfi (eds), Nel segreto dell’urna. Analisi delle elezioni politiche 2006. Turin: Utet, pp. 165-181 (The composition of the Italian Parliament: an empirical analysis).

3. P. Campana, F. Dallago and M. Roccato (2007, in Italian). Valsusa, Italia: La Tav e le grandi opere nella percezione dell’opinione pubblica. In F. Dallago and S. Zambrino (eds.), Osservatorio del Nord Ovest: Rapporti focalizzati 2006. Rome: Carocci, pp. 87-125 (Public opinion and new Italian infrastructures).

 

Other (selected) publications

1. P. Campana (forthcoming 2011). Against the concept of ‘transnational organized crime’: a new taxonomy for assessing Mafia operations across territories. ECPR Standing Group on Organized Crime, Newsletter, 10:1.

2. P. Campana (2010). The Movement of a Camorra Clan. The functional diversification of Organized Crime groups across territories. Ottawa: Public Safety Canada [also translated into French].

3. P. Campana (2008). Tra silenzio e omologazione: le mafie sui quotidiani italiani. Lo Straniero, January, 90-91, pp. 12-17. (Between silence and stereotypes: The Mafia on the Italian daily press).

4. P. Campana, L. Debernardi and P. Ferragutti. (2005, in Italian). “Gli operai guardano (ancora) a sinistra?”, Nuvole, 26, pp. 34 – 39 (Do workers still give their vote to the left?)

Dataset Publicly Available

LUPA Dataset on Suicide Missions in the Palestinian Area, 1981-2003 (with Luca Ricolfi). Freely available at:

http://www.exlegi.ox.ac.uk/resources/Suicide_Missions/login.asp