The Politicization of the Camorra.
The Police Sources in Naples (1848-1860)
The article describes the politicization of the Camorra in the first half
of the nineteenth century using the police sources of the1840-60. These
sources show an increasing occupation by the phenomenon of Camorra,
which spreads from prisons and gambling in some markets. There is a
documented negotiated systemic co-management of the public order
between the police and the Camorra. But with the constitutional uprisings
of 1848 there is a significant politicization with a liberal orientation in
particular the Camorrists of the market, that is present even in some
prisons revolts. This politicization will cause from a side, an important
separation (with a following contrast) between a pro-realistic and a liberal
Camorra; from the other side, a greater attention of the police authorities
for this specific criminal group. Throughout the fifties of the nineteenth
century this process increases until the famous cooptation in the Guardia
cittadina by Liborio Romano in 1860.