L'assimilazione tra corruzione e criminalità organizzata nel declino della categoria del white-collar crime

Why do contemporary criminal policies assimilate corruption and organised crime? The author offers a number of explanations, such as the evolution of corruption into a "systemic" or "organised" type of crime, the empirical evidence of a significant link between corruption and organised crime, and theoretical approaches using models that go beyond the economic crime paradigm. However, the author argues that these new scenarios are not justified. According to the author, these new scenarios are not sufficient to justify the assimilation of phenomena that, from a legal point of view, remain very distant from each other. From this perspective, the legal definition of mafia-organised crime is still reasonable because it is based on scientific grounds and empirical evidence.