All Outputs (7)

Deconstructing ‘Agromafie’: A Case Law Analysis of the Interplay of Organised and Corporate Crime in Food Frauds in Italy. (2023)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A. (2023). Deconstructing ‘Agromafie’: A Case Law Analysis of the Interplay of Organised and Corporate Crime in Food Frauds in Italy. Studi sulla questione criminale, 103-120. https://doi.org/10.7383/109487

Food frauds regularly gain media and institutional attention worldwide due to associated health risks and the impact they have on trust in the food industry. In Italy, media, NGOs, and farmers’ associations tend to consider food fraud and, more broad... Read More about Deconstructing ‘Agromafie’: A Case Law Analysis of the Interplay of Organised and Corporate Crime in Food Frauds in Italy..

Antimafia cross-border: conceptual and procedural asymmetries in the fight against Italian mafias in Europe (2022)
Journal Article
Sergi, A., & Rizzuti, A. (in press). Antimafia cross-border: conceptual and procedural asymmetries in the fight against Italian mafias in Europe. Policing, Article paac047. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac047

This article explores some of the challenges to fighting against Italian mafias and mafia-type organized crime in Europe, specifically in eight countries—Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Romania, the UK, and Italy. Data have bee... Read More about Antimafia cross-border: conceptual and procedural asymmetries in the fight against Italian mafias in Europe.

Tra azzardo e consolidamento: l’opportunismo condizionato dei clan mafiosi italiani in Europa (2021)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A., & Sergi, A. (2021). Tra azzardo e consolidamento: l’opportunismo condizionato dei clan mafiosi italiani in Europa. Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.13130/cross-16119

Questo saggio presenta un’analisi preliminare di dati raccolti in relazione a 6 paesi europei – Germania, Svizzera, Paesi Bassi, Belgio, Spagna e Romania – per tracciare le evidenze della mobilità di clan mafiosi italiani. Tra azzardi e consolidament... Read More about Tra azzardo e consolidamento: l’opportunismo condizionato dei clan mafiosi italiani in Europa.

Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy (2021)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A. (in press). Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy. Crime, Law and Social Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-021-09975-w

The food sector is subject to illegal practices of various types such as adulteration or exploitation of labour. In the media and public discourse, this phenomenon is often associated to activities by organised crime groups. Drawing on a socio-legal... Read More about Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy.

Organised Food Crime? Analysing harmful and criminal activities in the food supply chain in England and Italy (2021)
Thesis
Rizzuti, A. Organised Food Crime? Analysing harmful and criminal activities in the food supply chain in England and Italy. (Thesis). University of Essex. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3945308

Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector (2020)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A. (2020). Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector. Social Sciences, 9(7), Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci9070112

Food offers highly profitable opportunities to criminal actors. Recent cases, from wine and meat adulteration to milk powder contaminations, have brought renewed attention to forms of harmful activities which have long occurred in the food sector. De... Read More about Food Crime: A Review of the UK Institutional Perception of Illicit Practices in the Food Sector.

The Food Industry
Book Chapter
Rizzuti, A. (in press). The Food Industry. In Y. Zabyelina, & K. L. Thachuk (Eds.), The Private Sector and Organized Crime : Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003198635

The food sector is highly attractive to criminals. First, it is lucrative, and notwithstanding its fragility, hardly suffers from economic turndowns. Second, it is strongly yet fragmentarily regulated, often poorly investigated, and the penalties app... Read More about The Food Industry.