Crime and the environment: the importance of shared principles and values

Abstract

The contribution aims to identify some emblematic tools in the fight against environmental crime. Starting from the analysis of the environmental asset as a constitutional value, it analyzes, first, the regulatory framework of reference in the light, in particular, of the recent constitutional reform and, subsequently, the critical issues that, on a daily basis, environmental protection must face. It also dwells on the peculiarities of environmental crime and eco-mafias, so as to be able to understand what the main limits are to prevention and contrast actions and, consequently, what are the possible and fundamental solution tools.