Studying the mafia at university

A course at Roma Tre’s faculty of law on the history and culture of the mafia is proving wildly popular with students

Enzo Ciconte, former member of parliament for the Partito Comunista Italiano between 1987 and 1992, renowned mafia expert, historian and a consultant to the parliamentary anti-mafia committee, is sitting in his small but panoramic office near the Pantheon. In between numerous phone calls, he is vivaciously explaining why running the first course – begun last year – on the birth and development of organised crime in Italy at the faculty of law of the Università di Roma Tre is one of the best things he’s ever been involved in. “I am convinced that the students who take part in the course will bring an anti-mafia approach and a spirit of legality to their profession,” he says. “If students choose a course like this it means they have an ideal or moral motivation that is pushing them, something extra.”
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