Mafiosity and mafia associations in the contemporary world: the anti-mafia legislation in relation to the evolution of mafia type networks

Abstract

This elaborate is based on the work of a comparative analysis of some of the judgments relating to associationism about the mafia in Lombardy and Piedmont, in particular, but also to ethnic criminal organizations. In the light of discrepancies emerged from the analytical work between provision of law and operational reality of the mafias, it is necessary to reflect on a possible update to art .416/bis due of the changed needs of contrast related to the evolution of the mafias in order to identify the best anti-crime investigative techniques by placing the lower courts in the best position to judge.
Here we want to bring out the need and the urgency to rethink the instrument of Articles 416 and 416/bis c.p. to face the new threats brought by organized crime, national and international in its capacity as transnational, to the common coexistence.