Favor Reparationis in Environmental Criminal Law. The Italian Experience in the European Context

The most recent guidelines of criminal policy at the European Union level pay particular attention to enhancing the forms of reparation for harm caused to interests as a result of a crime. Environmental criminal law is not immune to this trend and, on the contrary, it seems to offer a fertile ground for analysing the multiple ways in which remedial conduct may assume relevance in the various phases of the punitive process. This paper therefore aims to carry out a survey of the different models of interaction between favor reparationis and criminal liability for environmental crimes provided for under Italian law, within the framework of supranational guidelines.