Chiara Feliciani Dina Siegel Mahmoud Jaraba Alessandro Moretti David Suber

Organized Crime and Ethnography

A Talk by Dina Siegel , Mahmoud Jaraba , Alessandro Moretti , David Suber and Chiara Feliciani

About this Talk

This roundtable will analyse the different ethnographic methods used to study organised crime. The different participants will discuss their work and explain how and what they did and what the benefits were.

30 October 2024, 05:30 PM

05:30 PM - 06:45 PM

About The Speakers

Dina Siegel

Dina Siegel

Utrecht University, Utrecht University / CIROC

Professor of Criminology at Utrecht University, The Netherlands and co-founder of CIROC.


Mahmoud Jaraba

Mahmoud Jaraba

Research institute, The Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE)

Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba has been researching ethnographically the milieu of Arab-Kurdish extended families (so-called Mḥallamīya) for several years, focusing on the topic of “clan crime” in Germany.


Alessandro Moretti

Alessandro Moretti

University of Copenhagen

Researcher exploring illicit markets, organised crime, online harms, and deviant entrepreneurship. Author of an ethnographic study of ticket touting in the UK.


David Suber

David Suber

Oxford University

David lectures researches the effects of border enforcement on smuggling practices. He conducts ethnographic research with and about smugglers and law enforcement.


Chiara Feliciani

Chiara Feliciani

Geneva Graduate Institute

Chiara is a PhD in Anthropology, and works on the topics of territorial stigmatisation and social redemption amongst activists, youths and evangelicals in an urban periphery of Naples identified as a "Camorraland".