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On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, Jacobs University invites you to the lecture »Organized Crime and Illegal Market in the European Union Today« by Prof. Dr. Pino Arlacchi. The former Executive Director of the UN-Office for Drugs Control and Crime Prevention and Professor of Sociology at the University of Sassari (Italy)gives an insight into the Illegal Market. Arlacchi will talk about the investigation of major criminality and the importance of fighting major evils like terrorism, organized crime and illegal markets.
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From 1997 to 2002 Prof. Arlacchi was Undersecretary General of the United Nations in Vienna, charged with the task of fighting terrorism, organized crime and illegal markets. In 1994, he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and in 1996, to the Italian Senate. Arlacchi, one of the most prominent scholars in the field of organized crime, money laundering, and drug trafficking, has served as Vice President of the Italian Parliamentary Commission on the Mafia Phenomenon. During 2004 he was in Kosovo where he built, under a mandate from the European Commission, the Financial Intelligence Unit against money laundering. The expert was a close friend of Giovanni Falcone, the great Italian prosecutor who was assassinated by the Mafia in 1992.
The lecture will take place in the context of the Univeristy Studies Course "Crime, Culture, and Science“ and will begin at 7.15 p. m. in the Conrad Naber Lecture Hall.
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Publications by Pino Arlacchi |
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Among Pino Arlacchi’s publications are the following books: Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates. Society in Traditional Calabria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1983; Mafia Business. The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988; Gli uomini del disonore. La mafia siciliana nella vita del grande pentito Antonino Calderone. Milano: Mondadori 1994 (German edition: Mafia von innen. Das Leben des Don Antonio Calderone. Frankfurt a.M.: S. Fischer 1995); Addio Cosa Nostra. La vita di Tommaso Buscetta. Milano: Rizzoli 1994; Ware Mensch. Der Skandal des modernen Sklavenhandels. München: Piper 2000.
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