Antonio Nicaso (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo niˈkaːzo]; born 1964) is an Italian[1] author, university professor,[2][3] researcher,[4] speaker[5] and consultant to governments and law-enforcement agencies originally from Caulonia, Calabria, Italy,[6] now based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[7] He is an expert on the Calabrian mafia (known as 'Ndrangheta).[8][9] Nicaso lives and works in North America. He teaches courses on "Social History of Organized Crime in Canada" and "Mafia Culture and the Power of Symbols, Rituals and Myth" at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario. He also teaches at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ontario and the Italian School of Middlebury College in Oakland, California in the United States and is the co-director of the Research in Forensic Semiotics Unit at Victoria College (University of Toronto).[10]
Nicaso has published more than 50 books.[11] His book Global Mafia, published in 1995, concerned international criminal partnerships. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, at York University (Toronto); on the International Advisory Council of the Italian Institute of Strategic Studies "Niccolò Machiavelli" in Rome, Italy, and on the Expert Advisory Committee on Bullying, Intimidation and Gang Violence in Montreal.[10] He is also president of Centro Scuola e Cultura, a program offering Italian courses and courses abroad in Italy.[10]
- ^ Peter Edwards (31 July 2012). The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime: From Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher. McClelland & Stewart. pp. 190–. ISBN 978-1-55199-688-2.
- ^ " "Italy's 'Ndrangheta Mafia: A Powerful Ally for the Zetas ". InSight Crime
- ^ "Crime experts predict reprisals" CBC News Montreal.
- ^ :Extradition of Ont. mob suspects uncertain: expert ". CBC News.
- ^ "Expert says Canadians too soft on organized crime". CBC News.
- ^ "Antonio Nicaso incontra Caulonia" (in Italian). lentelocale.it. 9 May 2015.
- ^ Lejtenyi, Patrick. "Toronto is Infested with Mobsters". Vice.
- ^ "In the Name of the Father, the Son, and of the 'Ndrangheta. Dangerous Liaisons between church and crime in Calabria". A Revelation Secular.
- ^ "A Year of Conferences and Promotions". Archived 2014-09-05 at the Wayback Machine Frit, Indiana State University.
- ^ a b c "Antonio Nicaso". Middlebury Language Schools. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ Scheider, Stephen. "Bibliography". Iced- The Story of Organized Crime in Canada.