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Zoomafia as Organized Animal-Related Crime: A Narrative Criminological Review with an Italian Perspective

  • Paolo Bailo,
  • Maria Sofia Petrelli,
  • Emerenziana Basello,
  • Giuliano Pesel and
  • Giovanna Ricci

12 June 2026

Zoomafia is frequently invoked in Italian public, advocacy, and institutional discourse to describe profit-oriented animal-related crime, but the term remains analytically broad and insufficiently connected to criminological theory. This narrative cr...

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10 April 2017

Hundreds of theories exist concerning the identity of “Jack the Ripper”. His propensity for anatomical dissection with a knife—and in particular the rapid location and removal of specific organs—led some to speculate that he must have been surgically...