Personal Details
Title: Professor of Criminology, Director of EXLEGI, Fellow of Linacre College
College Affiliation: Linacre College
Contact Details
Email: federico.varese@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 281150
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Research interests: Organized crime; the application of social network analysis to the study of criminal groups; migration and mafias; theories of action.
Federico Varese joined the University in 2003. In 2006, he obtained the title of Professor of Criminology. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Sociology at Williams College and William H. Orrick Visiting Professor at Yale University. Formerly a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, he obtained a D.Phil in Sociology from the University of Oxford in 1997. He holds a degree in Political Science from Bologna University and an M.Phil. in Social and Political Theory from King's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are the study of 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 the rescue of persecuted minorities during the Nazi occupation of Europe.
He has published 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 2001), won the Ed Hewitt Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2002 and has appeared in Dutch and Polish. His new book, Mafias on the Move, appeared in 2010. He is also the editor of the journal Global Crime.
Selected Publications:
Books
Varese, F. (2011) Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories (Princeton University Press).
Reviewed in:The Financial Times (John Lloyd); Business Week; Freakonomics blog; Wall Street Journal; La Repubblica (Roberto Saviano);The Financial Times Magazine (Tim Harford); Times of India;London Review of Books (Misha Glenny); La Stampa; L'espresso; Times Literary Supplement; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Dag og Tid [Norway]; Sole 24 Ore; Il Riformista; Gazeta C [Macedonia]; Public Choice; Narcomafie; Gazzetta di Parma; La Nuova Ferrara; Zoomsud.it; Quaderni di Sociologica; American Journal of Sociology (Mike Levi); Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia; British Journal of Criminology; European Sociological review; Choice; Birikim Dergis [Turkey]; Thriller Magazine; Belfagor
Italian translation: Varese, F. (2011) Le Mafie in Movimento: Come il crimine organizzato conquista nuovi territori(Turin: Einaudi 2011).
Varese, F. (ed.). 2010. Organized Crime (series: Critical Concepts in Criminology), 4 vols. (Routledge).
Varese, F. (2001) The Russian Mafia. Private Protection in a New Market Economy ( Oxford University Press). Paperback edition, 2005.
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Dutch translation: Varese, F. (2004) De Russische Mafia. Amsterdam : Meulenhoff, paperback, 320 pp, 2004.
Polish translation: Varese, F. (2009) Mafia rosyjska. Prywatna ochrona w nowej gospodarce rynkowej, paperback, 368 pp., 2009.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Varese, F. (2011). How Mafias Take Advantage of Globalization. The Russian Mafia in Italy. British Journal of Criminology. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azr077
Varese, F. (2011). 'Mafia movements: a framework for understanding the mobility of mafia groups', Global Crime 12(3) pp 218 -231
Paolo Campana and Federico Varese. 2011. Listening to the wire: criteria and techniques for the quantitative analysis of phone intercepts. Trends in Organized Crime, 14(2)
Varese, F. (2006) 'The Secret History of Japanese Cinema: The Yakuza Movies'. Global Crime 7:1.
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Varese, F. (2006) ‘How Mafias Migrate’. Law and Society Review. 40:2, pp. 411-444.
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Varese, F. (2005) ‘La mafia russa in Italia’, Limes. Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, 12(1), pp. 229-239.
Varese, F. with Yaish, M. (2005) Resolute Heroes: the Rescue of Jews during the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Archives Européennes de Sociologie, pp. 153-168.
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Varese, F. (2004) Struktura mafioznykh gruppirovok, Panorama Issledovanij Politiki Prikam'ya, 2, pp 157-167
Varese, F. with Smith, A. (2001) Payment, Protection and Punishment: the Role of Information and Reputation in the Mafia. Rationality and Society, pp. 387-431.
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Varese, F. with Yaish, M. (2000) The Importance of Being Asked. The Rescue of Jews in Nazi Europe. Rationality and Society, pp. pp. 307-324.
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Varese, F. (1998) The Society of the Vory-v-Zakone, 1930s-1950s , Cahiers du Monde Russe, 1998, pp. 515-538. Reprinted in M. Galeotti (ed.), Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate), 2002, pp. 7-30.
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Varese, F. (1994) Is Sicily the future of Russia? Private protection and the rise of the Russian Mafia, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 1994, pp. 224-258. Reprinted in Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 40th Anniversary Issue, 42:1 (2001), pp. 186-220 and in M. Galeotti (ed.), Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate), 2002, pp. 173-207.
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Articles in Journals
Varese, F. (2012), I riots di Londra tra mistificazioni e analisi empirica. Lo Straniero 140, pp. 40-46 [In Italian]
Veronesi, P. (2011), Quante mafie. Intervista a Federico Varese Lo Straniero, 137, pp. 50-60. [in Italian]
Ciccarello, E. (2011), Dove non c'e' governo c'e' mafia. Intervista a Federico Varese. Narcomafie, Luglio/Augosto, pp. 19-21 [In Italian]
Varese, F. (2006) 'The Sopranos? No, the Shepherds', The Times (London), April 14, p.25.
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Varese, F. 2006. ‘L’omicidio di Anna Politkovskaja nella Russia di Putin’ Lo Straniero, November. For an English version follow this link
Varese, F. 2005 ‘Pretty Babies’ Times Literary Supplement, March 8, p. 23.
Varese, F. 2005 ‘Has Fascism returned to Italy?’ Italian Politics & Society, 60 (Spring), pp. 87-90. Click here to download this article (pdf).
Varese , F. (2005) Messages from the Mafia, London Review of Books, January 6, 31-32. Expanded and translated in Italian as: ‘Berlusconi Visto dagli Inglesi (e dalla Luna)’, Lo Straniero, 57 (2005), pp. 20-27. Reprented in Il Dialogo, April 2005.
Varese, F. (2004) Great Mobility, Times Literary Supplement, July 2, pp. 6-7. Translated in Italian as: ‘La mafia oltre il folklore’, Lo Straniero 59 (2005), pp. 36-41.
Varese, F. (2003) Russia e America al paragone. Lo Straniero, 32, pp. 93-102.
Varese F. (2001) ‘There is no place like Home. How the mafia finds it difficult to expand from its geographical base', Times Literary Supplement, February 23, pp. 3-4. (See also, F.V., ‘Letter: The Mafia in Sicily', TLS, April 20, p. 19.). Translated in Italian as: ‘Casa Dolce Casa. La Mafia tra localizzazione ed espansione', Lettera Internazionale, March 2002, pp. 50-52. Translated in Rumanian as ‘Mafii de-acasa si mafii de export', Lettre Internationale-Edi?ia român?, Spring 2003, pp. 116-117.
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Articles in Books
Varese, F. (2010)‘What is Organized Crime?’, Introduction to F.V. (ed.), Organized Crime (series: Critical Concepts in Criminology), 4 volls. Routledge, pp. 1-35. (PDF)
Varese, F. (2004) Mafia Transplantation, in J. Kornai, B. Rothstein, and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.) Creating Social Trust: Problems of Post-Socialist Transition. New York : Palgrave-Macmillian, pp. 148-166.
Varese, F. (2004) Varieties of Protectors, in A. Amin and N.J.Thrift (eds.), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader, Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, pp. 145-163.
Varese, F. (2003) 'Clientelism', 'Corruption', 'Mafia', 'Principal-Agent Problem', 'State Capture', in I. McLean (ed.), Oxford Dictionary of Politics, 2nd ed. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press.
Varese, F. (2000) Pervasive Corruption, in A Ledeneva and M Kurkchiyan (eds.), Economic Crime in Russia, pp. 99-111.
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Reports
Varese, F. 2010. Réponse au rapport La mobilité des groupes criminels. Une réflexion à la lumière de recherches effectuées récemment sur les mouvements transnationaux de la mafia. Préparé pour la Division de la recherche et de la coordination nationale sur le crime organisé, Secteur de la police et de l’application de la loi, Sécurité publique Canada. Rapport no 19, 2010, Sa Majesté la Reine du chef du Canada, 2010 ISBN No : 978-1-100-97024-0.
Selected Reviews
Varese F. (2008) ‘Strictly Business', Times Literary Supplement, 22.II, p. 27.
Varese, F. 2006 ‘The Economics of the Camorra. Review Article’. Global Crime 7:2, pp. 268-273.
Varese, F. 2006 Contacts, Opportunities and Criminal Enterprise (2005) by Carlo Morselli, British Journal of Criminology, 46: 6.
Varese, F. 2006 L’udienza e’ aperta (2006) by Vincenzo Marra, Narcomafie, October.
Varese, F. 1997 Russian Organized Crime: The New Threat (1997), edited by P. Williams, Times Literary Supplement, November 7, p. 22. |