Genetically modified organism and Green Criminology. An observational proposal [Organismi geneticamente modificati e Green criminology. Una proposta osservativa]

This paper deals with the topic of GMOs from a pluralistic and emerging perspective termed "green criminology" - a new field in criminology that has, for the first time, environmental issues as a specific object of analysis. Both the re-reading of the philosophical concept of phàrmakon and its interpretation within this peculiar field allow to propose a theoretical approach that may be useful to highlight the frictions among the notions of crime (in a broad meaning exceeding the penal sphere), environment, culture and justice. Then, I will suggest that if, on the one hand, it is true that it is necessary to overcome the "sacralisation" of nature, on the other hand, we ought not to follow the equally dangerous idea of the "sacralisation" of science. A green criminological approach allows to treat those issues from new perspectives, open to the complexity of the observed phenomena.