Vincenzo Musacchio

Researcher at the High School of Strategic Studies on Organized Crime of the Royal United Services Institute of London

President and Scientific Director of the Molise Anti-Mafia Observatory.

Scientific Director of the “don Peppe Diana” School of Legality in Rome and Molise.

Professor of criminal law and criminology in various Italian and foreign universities (1993-2010) including the High School of Formation of the Prime Minister in Rome (2011-2012).

Analyst and Researcher of organized crime and anti-corruption strategies.

In 2019 he was awarded a special mention in Casal di Principe to the "don Peppe Diana" National Award from the family of the priest murdered by the Camorra.

His scientific activity began in 1992, when he became professor of criminal law at the University of Molise and at only twenty-four he held the chair of administrative criminal law, becoming the youngest adjunct professor in Italy for that year.

He has taught subjects related to criminal law disciplines and criminology in Brescia, Naples, Chieti, Campobasso and most recently at the Higher Training School of the Presidency of the Council in Rome and lectured in foreign universities including the Universities of Seville and Barcelona. , in Argentina and Brazil.

From 1994 to 1996 he carried out research activities at the National Research Council (IRSIG-CNR) of Bologna under the direction of Prof. Giuseppe Di Federico, dealing with comparative studies also concerning organized crime in European and non-European countries.

His teaching and research activity is mainly devoted to studies and insights on issues relating to substantive criminal law, organized crime, corruption and white-collar crimes. Among the masters who influenced his thought are Giuliano Vassalli, Giuseppe Bettiol and Ettore Gallo.

He is a member of the steering committee and collaborates with Italian and foreign criminal journals, such as Criminal Cassation (Giuffrè), Penal Journal, Criminal Justice, Italian Jurisprudence (Utet), Police Journal, The Law of People and the Family (Giuffrè), Merito (Giuffrè) and abroad with the New Journal of European Criminal Law (Belgium), the Revista General de Derecho Penal (Spain), German Law Journal (Germany), L'Astree (France), Ciencias Penales Conteporaneas (Argentina) , Revista Instituto Brasileiro de Ciencias Criminais (Brazil).

He has collaborated with the Encyclopedia of Law (Giuffrè) and the Digest of Criminal Disciplines (Utet).

In 2005, the only Italian criminal lawyer, he participated in the XVII Latin American Congress of Criminal Law and Criminology organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Guayaquil, Ecuador on the issues of the effectiveness of punishment in modern criminal law.

He was a collaborator of the Council of the European Union in the field of organized crime and human trafficking.

He collaborated with the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences on an international project on the relationship between economics and organized crime in the European Union (IBCCRIM).

He collaborated on a corruption project with the Spanish government and the University of Seville, coordinating the sector concerning prevention and repression systems.

He is registered in the Register of Experts in Criminal Matters of the Council of Europe.

For over twenty years he has been a promoter and activist in the dissemination of the culture of legality in schools of all levels. "The professor. Vincenzo Musacchio - writes Maria Falcone - carries out a meritorious activity in Italian schools making sure that men who have offered their lives for legality are not forgotten ”.

He begins his fight against the mafia when he meets Antonino Caponnetto and with him they organize various meetings in Italian schools.

As a columnist, Prof. Musacchio collaborated and collaborates with Il Sole 24ore, Italia Oggi and with the historic Palermo newspaper "L'ORA", with the monthly "I Siciliani" founded by Pippo Fava, with the online newspaper "Resto al Sud ", With the national newspaper" Il Garantista ", with the" Gazzetta del Sud "with" Il Manifesto ", with" Il Dubbio ", with" La Stampa ", with" La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno "with the magazine" LEFT ", with "Articolo21", with "Antimafia 2000", with "l'Avanti", with "Affari Italiani" and with "Famiglia Cristiana".

On 1 March 2015, in the Sunday edition, "L'ORA" in Palermo publishes an unpublished letter from Giovanni Falcone addressed to professor Vincenzo Musacchio and taken up by the main national newspapers.

In 2014, with the "Don Peppe Diana" School of Legality based in Rome and Molise, he created the "Common Good Legality" Project which in the same year was extended nationally to schools of all levels with prominent names such as Pino Arlacchi , Maria Falcone, Emilio Diana, Elena Fava, Salvatore Borsellino, Simona Dalla Chiesa and many other activists in the fight against the Italian mafias.