Isabella Clough Marinaro

Isabella Clough Marinaro teaches courses in sociology (eg, Migration and Contemporary Society; Rome Modern City) and with a special focus on crime studies (Introduction to Criminology; Globalization and Crime; Green Criminology; Policing and Society; Prisons and Carcerality).

She has a Ph.D. from the University of Bath (2006). For many years, she worked on the political and social conditions of Roma communities in Italy and the policy processes affecting them. Her most recent research has focused on changing forms of crime and multidimensional informalities in contemporary Italy. She has published a single-authored book: Inhabiting Liminal Spaces: Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy (2022). She has also co-edited three books – Living Rome: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging [IC1] (2026), Italian Mafias Today: Territory, Business and Politics (2019) and Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (2014) – and she is working on two more. She is also currently developing various projects that explore grassroots strategies for crime prevention in Italy.

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