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Anti-mafia prevention measures in Italy
This sensitive topic requires a necessary introduction. The magistrates who have dedicated their lives to fighting organized crime have always been acutely aware of the "insurmountable limits of the judicial response to the Mafia": Paolo Borsellino explained, bluntly, that simply investigating crimes and identifying the perpetrators is in itself inadequate to eradicate the socioeconomic and cultural roots of the Mafia, which is so deeply embedded in the country's reality that it finds the strength to rebound, with ever greater ferocity, after every judicial success against it.
Knowledge of the phenomenon
"Follow the money"
The technical outcome of this cultural background has been a fundamental modernization of Italian criminal law, which has resulted in a shared focus on mafia capital (Falcone said, "follow the money") through preventive measures. Specifically, the legislation seeks to target that particular form of white-collar crime associated with mafia organizations, which creates a gray area that is not always easily classified within the categories of "classic" criminal law, but nonetheless characterized by a significant economic and political impact, jeopardizing the effective functioning of free market rules and the institutions of the rule of law across vast swathes of the country.
