Biography of authors and consultants – Study Center for Legality Security and Justice

Marco Strano

Psychologist and criminologist is considered one of the highest psychology experts connected to the police activity. He began his professional activity in the police forces in 1981 as an officer of the carabinieri (special unit division), then, after a few years, he passed through the special operational unit of the office of the high anti -mafia commissioner of Palermo dealing for 7 years of tactical intelligence operations and then to his dissolution, in 1991, operated for another 10 years as an operational agent in Italy and abroad in a special unit of the intelligence services of the Presidency of the Council of the Council of the Council of the Council of the Council of the Council of the Council Ministers (SISDE) in the fight against organized crime and in the analysis of the murders, gaining further experience on the field of hum.int and in the operational tactical activity in the urban environment and in countryside areas in Italy and abroad. In 2001 he passed on to the request in the State Police as Technical Director of the Psychologist Capo (the military equivalent of Lieutenant Colonel) where he initially commanded for about four years the Uaci (unit of analysis of the IT crimes) of the communications police, obtaining brilliant results in the fight against child pornography. Later, transferred to the request, he was framed in the health sector of the State Police, where he reached the managerial qualification (superior technical director) in 2018, providing service at the Interregional Command of the State Police (Lazio – Abruzzo – Sardinia) with psychology tasks applied to the police activity. From 2017 to 2019 he went to the USA for international collaboration activities with the Californian police. In September 2019 he left the State Police and began to collaborate with a three -year consultancy contract (renewable) with the CSU Fullerton Police Department of Los Angeles, to organize joint training experiences between Italian and American police operators and to develop research and training projects on the psychology of police operators involved in fire conflicts and criminal profiling in the cases of murders of murders unresolved. Parallel to the institutional operational activity, Marco Strano has deepened university studies of sociology of the organization, psychology and criminology by teaching in various universities and carrying out some pioneering scientific publications. In fact, it is the president of the Study Center for Legality, Security and Justice (www.criminology.org) an association that since 1999 has studied innovative investigation techniques and problems of psychology of police and military operators and within which there is a team specialized in the study of Cold Cases. He is the author of 22 books on criminological -investigative issues and more than 100 scientific articles in psychological and criminological subjects. In 2004 he participated as a speaker at the workshop “The Nature and Influence of Intuition in Law Enforcement: integration of Theory and Practice“, Organized by the BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE UNIT OF THE FBI A QUANTICO (Virginia) with the patronage of the American Psychological Association, presenting a pioneering study on the application of artificial intelligence at Criminal Profiling.

Simone de Fraja

Lawyer, essayist and scholar of medieval fortifications. He mainly deals with criminal matter species and science of investigation and some areas of civil law. He collaborates with the Forensic Training School of Arezzo, of which he was the promoter and co -founder (today Forensic Foundation). For the criminal chamber of Arezzo, of which he was president, he was part, together with magistrates and parliamentarians, in the conference “Crime and punishment” (May 2005) with the report “The imprint of Cain” with P. Margara and is the promoter of numerous meetings relating to courses for officer defenders as well as a speaker or moderator in conferences with legal and criminological relief as, recently, for the “scientific test” conference ” (with L. Garofano, V. Saltarelli and S. Matone), 2015. For the criminal chamber, he promoted and hosted the presentation of the volume “Letters Francesca” by F. Scopelliti (2016) as well as “Anatomy of the judicial power” by G. Guarnieri, G. Insolera, L. Zilletti (2017). For the Italian Academy of Forensic Sciences he is a member of the Ethical Committee and during the II National Congress of the Academy he participated with the report “Logical legal aspects of the investigations and pathology of the judgment“(2018). He is a member of city and national cultural associations, founding partner of the Aretine Historical Society, of which he is vice -president, for which he has held conferences and television interventions; collaborates with the newspaper” La Nazione “. Councilor of the Ferraguti Tomassetti Foundation. He was Probo Viro and councilor of the”Aretina Brigade Friends of Monuments“; For the Aretine Historical Society, of which he is a founding member and vice -president (2018), he is a member of the scientific committee of drafting of the bimonthly magazine and the area dedicated to Castellology and medieval settlements. He collaborates with the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence as the thesis co -owner relating to recovery projects of medieval fortifications. In addition to the essays appeared in accredited scientific journals they remember, among the recent publications, «Medieval fortifications in Valcerfone, reconnaissance and census», Aretina Historical Company, 2011, with the preface by Aldo A. Settia; “Medieval fortifications in Valmarecchia, the Municipality of Badia Tedalda», Aretina Historical Company, 2013 with the preface by A. Fatucchi; “The Instanbul», Phasar Edizioni, 2014; “Nepi. Fortification and image», Phasar, 2015; ,The fortifications of Clemente V», Phasar, 2017; ,Sieges and fortifications», Aretina Historical Society, 2018, with the preface by Aldo A. Settia, winner of the” Tagete Prize “for the non -fiction in 2019. In 2020 with Aska he published, with a preface by Luca Berti,”1384, the taking of the city. Arezzo in the hands of Endugererand de Coucy».

Marco Romani

Born in Rieti, he had had a strong interest in photography since he was a child. The first photographic machine was an instant Polaroid at the age of 11. After changing several machines and with the arrival of digital it finally passed to the first digital SLRs, combining the post the post production with the photo. Since 2019 with the arrival of drones, with objectives capable of making video shooting in 4K and great resolving photographs Marco Romani has started to deal with aerial photography. Thanks to the drones, it makes a landscape photography from a completely different perspective, thanks to the heights and angles that could never be reached with a simple reflex if not thanks the help of a real helicopter. Its main objective is to transmit emotions through a different shot than usual, but also to enhance the territory of the Sabina (where it resides). He made the beautiful aerial images of Poggio Catino of this essay.

PRISCILLA ZANUTEL

Archaeologist and president of the PEPS Rerum Memoria (Rome) graduated with the highest votes from the Department of Antiquity Sciences of the University of the “Sapienza” in Rome with an experimental thesis and during its academic path he participated in studies and research in various workshops, excavations and courses in the anthropological field, including the anthropology laboratory at the Museum of Civilization (Muciv); the anthropology laboratory of wisdom; the laboratory on bone finds incinerated at the Osteoarch association in Milan; the anthropology laboratory on archaeological and contemporary remains directed by Prof. C. Cattaneo; The anthropological excavation at the catacombs of S. Mustiola (closed) directed by the University of Romatre and the pontifical commission of Christian archeology. He attended the Higher Education course on new technologies applied to bioarcheology at the La Sapienza University of Rome and has excellent knowledge of uses and customs of the medieval era. In this research work it was one of the scholars who carried out investigations aimed at determining the sex of the skeleton of the white lady preserved at the Criminological Museum of Rome.