Francesco D'Alessandro

The paper analyses the evolution of the Italian environmental criminal law, focusing the attention on the principal issues that jurisprudential practice has traditionally faced. Moreover, the contribution critiques the distortions of the general categories of criminal law (in particular, abstract danger and crimes against the public safety), connected with the judicial effort to ensure – seen the precautionary principle – an adequate protection of the environment, with all its basic elements (soil, air, water)...