The technical result of this cultural background has been a fundamental process to modernize Italian criminal law, which has been applied as a shared focus on the mafia's assets through prevention measures ('follow the money', as Falcone said). More specifically, the legislation focuses on a particular form of white-collar crime close to mafia-influenced contexts. This leads to a gray area that cannot always be easily categorized as 'classical' criminal law, but which still carries a strong economic and political impact, endangering the concrete operation of free market rules and legal institutions in vast areas of the country.