https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/ The crimes of the powerful, from every angle. Investigations grounded in documents. en-gb https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/le-cavie-parte-seconda/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/le-cavie-parte-seconda/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/le-cavie-parte-seconda/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0200 The doses in the workers’ blood, the effects already written down in the studies, the successors to PFOA that were not safe. And the guinea pigs who stopped being guinea pigs. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-puntata2/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-puntata2/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-puntata2/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0200 Nobody knows how many Decree 231 consultants there are, how much they bill, or whether their models serve any purpose. What is known is how much judicial application the law produces: very little. A journey inside a market that lives off the uncertainty it promises to eliminate. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-puntata1/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-puntata1/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-puntata1/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200 Where Decree 231 comes from, how the pact between State and business works, what it promised and what the courts have made of it in twenty-five years. Part one of the series “The Paper Gold of Decree 231”. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-presentazione/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-presentazione/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/oro-di-carta-231-presentazione/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200 The law on corporate criminal liability has generated the richest business in Italian criminal law, and almost no verifiable result. Paper compliance, gold for the consultants. Introduction to the new series. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/le-cavie/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/le-cavie/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/le-cavie/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200 Women and men, the human guinea pigs of a failed experiment. The need to bring forward the criminal and civil protection of the victims. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/il-ponte-costruito-a-ritroso/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/teoria/il-ponte-costruito-a-ritroso/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/il-ponte-costruito-a-ritroso/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200 On Thursday 16 July, in Genoa, the Court of Assize reads its judgment on the collapse of the Morandi bridge: 43 dead. An essay by Luca Santa Maria, dedicated to Federico Stella, on the style with which the defences of the powerful are built. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/anonimato-societario/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/teoria/anonimato-societario/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/anonimato-societario/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0200 Italy is a land of industrial disasters, and yet corporate crimes remain “anonymous”: little studied, little perceived, little prosecuted. Claudia Marcolungo, who teaches Environmental Law at the University of Padua, picks up the thread of the counter-manifesto and takes on a subject that has stayed below the surface: corporate anonymity. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/contromanifesto-moretti/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/teoria/contromanifesto-moretti/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/contromanifesto-moretti/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0200 A counter-manifesto on the Moretti case. On 2 July 2026, in la Repubblica and Il Sole 24 Ore, a paid page appeared in defence of a citizen who is never named, and whom everyone recognises. We reply. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/cavie-un-solo-vulcano-due-bocche/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/cavie-un-solo-vulcano-due-bocche/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/cavie-un-solo-vulcano-due-bocche/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200 Miteni case · Part 2. Spinetta and Trissino are not two separate affairs: they are the two mouths of a single volcano. One molecule, cC6O4, which belongs to Solvay, and one direction weld them into a single disaster, spread across almost the whole of northern Italy. A disaster that stays invisible, because nobody, starting with the Ministry of the Environment, will call it by its name. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/gli-assenti/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/gli-assenti/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/gli-assenti/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200 Miteni case · Part 1. Inside the Miteni judgment: the findings of fact against Syensqo and DuPont are there. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/ilva-simbiosi-giuridica/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/teoria/ilva-simbiosi-giuridica/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/ilva-simbiosi-giuridica/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200 In Taranto the “State that lets it happen” has a barer face than elsewhere: it does not merely fail to see, it legislates in order not to stop. A recent essay reads the Ilva case with the tools of the criminology of the crimes of the powerful, and shows how the law became the place of the symbiosis between State and business, and harm to health a thing that was, for years, perfectly lawful. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/criminologia-impresa-usa/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/teoria/criminologia-impresa-usa/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/teoria/criminologia-impresa-usa/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200 In the United States corporate crime has a science that studies it as an empiricist would: it observes its organisation, measures its harm in the field, and derives from it templates that help the judge to read the facts. We follow it along two threads — environmental crimes and international corruption — to their common knot, the State that lets it happen, and up to the present day: because both subjects follow the political wind, and today that wind is blowing backwards. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/ungheria-il-fantasma-della-p2/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/ungheria-il-fantasma-della-p2/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/ungheria-il-fantasma-della-p2/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200 The story of an investigation that never really began. Part 0 — Premise and reading guide. https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/il-burattino-e-il-burattinaio/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/inchieste/il-burattino-e-il-burattinaio/ https://whitecollarcrimes.it/en/inchieste/il-burattino-e-il-burattinaio/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0200 The opening of an investigation in parts into the largest environmental poisoning ever established in Italy.