CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

From the fields of Sicily, the social reuse of confiscated goods became one of the most innovative policies. Today it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

Drug trafficking no longer depends on large cartels: technology and the circulation of know-how enable a decentralized model in which small actors produce and sell drugs.

How the State’s fragmented and uncoordinated response to drug trafficking resembles the Luddite logic: destroying instruments without transforming structures.

The debate on the age of criminal responsibility requires evidence, institutional capacity, and victim support — not urgent responses without real ability to implement them.

Data, attention and desire: Big Tech turns private life into a commodity and shapes consumption, politics, culture and organized crime.

The recovery of people with drug addiction issues is the key policy in the fight against organized crime.

Since the 1970s, the same policies of mass incarceration for those who produce and sell drugs have remained in place.

So far, the State has failed to provide effective—let alone innovative—responses to this phenomenon. In Italy, however, with the support of organized civil society and broad sectors of the political and judicial systems, efforts have been underway for nearly seventy years to develop a series of logical, modern, and interconnected tools to confront mafia organizations and to restore key democratic values that are eroded by mafia activity—chief among them, the public’s trust in