Pino Arlacchi
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Pino Arlacchi MEP |
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Giuseppe Arlacchi 2014
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy | |
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In office 1994–1996 |
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| Member of the Italian Senate | |
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In office 1996–2001 |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
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February 21, 1951  Gioia Tauro, Italy
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Political party | Democratic Party / S&D |
| Occupation | sociologist |
| Website | http://www.pinoarlacchi.it |
Giuseppe Arlacchi, also known as Pino, (February 21, 1951) is an Italian sociologist and is well known worldwide for his studies and essays about the Mafia. Currently he represents the Italian Democratic Party and is a member of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) parliamentary group since 2010.
On September 1, 1997 he was appointed Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), with the rank of Under-Secretary-General. Currently, he is a full professor of sociology at the University of Sassari.
He was born in Gioia Tauro, Calabria (Italy). In the early 1990s he was involved in the foundation of the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), a law-enforcement agency specially entrusted with fighting organized crime.
Later on he became president of IASOC (International Organization of studies on organized crime). Finally, he was appointed honorary president of the Giovanni Falcone foundation, named after noted magistrate Giovanni Falcone, who was also a close friend of him.
He has been associate professor of applied sociology at the University of Calabria and at the University of Florence. Moreover, he was visiting professor at the Columbia University of New York City, USA. Later on he got the full professor position at the University of University of Sassari, where he is currently professor of sociology in the political science faculty.
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