Transnational Organised Crime: An equal opportunity employer?

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A webinar with Professor Felia Allum (Bath University), as part of the Global Language-based Area Studies research theme at the School of Modern Languages.

Abstract 
In this talk, Professor Felia Allum will present and reflect on some of her findings about the role of women in crime groups to ask and answer the questions: Does a gender gap exist in organised crime groups? Does a glass ceiling exist for women or a clear form of stratification between men and women? In this talk, Professor Allum will answer and analyse some of these questions using her new material and findings.

This study combines the analysis of historical documents (papers from court cases; newspaper and other reports) with the first-hand accounts of women involved in TOCGs viewed through a cultural lens. The women’s experience will be analysed from a variety of angles – bottom up and top down, insider, and outsider, formal and informal – to decipher their life stories, motivations, strategic choices, and life paths to understand more fully their role within TOCGs and domestic crime groups.

Biography 
Felia Allum is Professor of Comparative organised crime and corruption at the University of Bath. Her research interests relate to West European Politics, organised crime, Italian mafias (the Neapolitan Camorra), gender and political corruption.

She has published two monographs: Camorristi, Politicians and Businessmen, The Transformation of Organized Crime in Post-War Naples (Northern Universities Press, 2006; in Italian, Il Crimine Organizato a Napoli, Napoli: L’Ancora, 2011) and The Invisible Camorra, Neapolitan Crime Families Across Europe (Itaca: Cornell University Press, 2016) which won the Outstanding Book Award 2017, given by the International Division, American Society of Criminology.

She is a member of the steering committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime, and between 2018 and 2022 she is a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow focusing on gender and organised crime. She has just published with artist, Anna Mitchell, "Graphic Narrative on Organised crime, gender and power in Europe, Discarded Footnotes" (Routledge, 2022).

Event format & recording
The event will take place online as a Zoom webinar and will be recorded for publication after the event.

Simultaneous Translation
The event will be delivered in the medium of English. You are welcome to ask questions in the medium of Welsh during the Q&A session. If you intend to do this, please contact mlang-events@cardiff.ac.uk by Wednesday 16 November to request simultaneous translation. Please note that 10% or more of those planning to attend will need to request this provision in order for it to be sourced and will be subject to resource availability.

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