Giulia Giardi (G.)

Dr. Giulia Giardi is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. Giulia conducts legal and criminological research into organisational (corporate, white-collar) crime as well as organised crime. She combines approaches and concepts from different theoretical frameworks including environmental, organisational, green and critical criminology. She is particularly interested in crimes and harms against the environment as well as the regulation and enforcement of environmentally-harmful activities in the EU and its member states. She has conducted empirical research in collaboration with the Dutch public prosecution service (Openbaar Ministerie) and Police and aims to develop a body of work on the enforcement of corporate environmental crime through action research involving enforcement agents in the Netherlands and other EU countries.