Federico Varese

Federico Varese is the author of "Mafia Life" (2018), which has been translated into seven languages. In 2001, he published "The Russian Mafia". "The Russian Mafia" won the Ed Hewitt prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 2002 and has been translated in Dutch and Polish.In 2011, he published "Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories" and edited a collection of papers titled "Organized Crime". He also contributes to "The Times Literary Supplement" and has written for "The London Review of Books", "Dissent Magazine", and "The Times (London)".

He lives in Oxford, where he is a Professor of Criminology at Oxford University and Head of the Department of Sociology.