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Organized crime in Italy's southern provinces was viewed in years past as a dangerous but localized byproduct of the region's economic and social frailties. More recently, scholars such as Anna Sergi, a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Essex, have sought to pinpoint certain traits that make Sicily's Cosa Nostra, Campania's Camorra and Calabria's 'Ndrangheta, among other groups, both distinctive and alike, and enabled the once obscure 'Ndrangheta to become perhaps the world's most feared crime syndicate. Over the past decade, Sergi has authored and co-authored four books on the evolution of the 'Ndrangheta, the relative benefits of...