Transforming Social Relations. Restorative Responses to Massive Human Rights Violations
This report offers reflection, clarity, and guidance on the application of a restorative justice framework in contexts of massive human rights violations, including the advantages, risks, opportunities, and challenges of such an approach. The analysis is based on the experiences of Colombia, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, and the Bangsamoro region of the Philippines, which represent a range of different processes that all either integrated or reflected the practices or principles of restorative justice.
PolPenEventiCritici-XXIII The prison police facing critical incidents
The PolPenEventiCritici-XXIII survey, titled “The Prison Police facing critical incidents”, analyzes some of the most significant issues raised in the previous two studies, PolPen XXI and PolPen XXII, using qualitative research methods. In particular, it delves into the experiences of preventing and managing critical incidents and their impact on the working conditions of prison officers.
C. Chisari (2023), Transitioning from dynamic security in Italian prisons: Assessing the influence of perceived insecurity on prison management
The article “Transitioning from dynamic security in Italian prisons: Assessing the influence of perceived insecurity on prison management”, by Chiara Chisari, examines the reasons underlying Circular of the Italian Prison Administration No. 3693/6143 of 2022, which significantly curtails the use of open custody and dynamic security in Italian prisons.
C. Chisari (2022), The Judicial Implementation of the Right to The Truth: Some Thoughts on the Argentinian Experience of the Juicios por la Verdad
This article explores the significance of safeguarding the right to truth in post-conflict contexts by examining the experience of the Juicios por la Verdad (Truth Trials), a quasi-judicial mechanism implemented in Argentina following the military dictatorship.
POLPEN-XXII First survey on prison police in Piedmont, Liguria, and Valle d’Aosta
The PolPen-XXII survey is the second study conducted in Italy on prison police personnel. It examines the perceptions of this understudied professional category regarding key aspects of their work experience, emotional well-being, and the quality of workplace relationships. The survey explores themes such as institutional (de)legitimization, professional orientation, management of critical incidents, attitudes toward the use of force, and dynamic surveillance.
POLPEN-XXI First survey of prison police in Lombardy
The PolPen-XXI survey is the first study conducted in Italy on prison police personnel. It captures the perceptions of this understudied professional category regarding various aspects of their work experience, emotional well-being, and the quality of workplace relationships. The survey explores themes such as institutional (de)legitimization, professional orientation, management of critical incidents, attitudes toward the use of force, and the impact of the COVID-19 emergency.
R. Cornelli (2020), La forza di polizia. Uno studio criminologico sulla violenza, Turin: Giappichelli
In a research journey that, starting from recent episodes of police brutality, addresses the key theoretical issues linking police action to the theme of violence from an interdisciplinary perspective, the Author offers an interpretation of police force that moves away from the common narrative of "bad apples" (or "diseased trees") to highlight the semantics of the violent act.
R. Cornelli, O. Binik, L. Natali (2020), When 'Message Laws' Create Perpetual Panic: the Case of Sex Offenders Registries
This contribution defines ‘Megan’s Laws’ as ‘message laws’, that is, those penal laws that carry a message not only coherent with the cultural impetus supporting their adoption but also anticipating something that is not (yet) acceptable to manifest openly inWestern politics.
R. Cornelli (2019), La paura nel campo penale. Una storia del presente
Reflecting on the intertwining of fear, violence and order as a constitutive trait of modern societies and on the projection of this intertwining in the contemporary world is essential to critically read today's political orientations and choices in the field of criminal law, urban security and counter-terrorism and, at the same time, allows us not to look away from that emptiness of imagination that is linked to the difficulty of thinking differently about the role of politics, which is forced into increasingly narrow and narrow spaces of action.
A. Ceretti, R. Cornelli (2018) Oltre la paura. Affrontare il tema della sicurezza in modo democratico, Milan: Feltrinelli
The book aims to challenge the widespread tendency to rely on pre-packaged solutions when reflecting on crime and insecurity, urban violence, racial hatred, incivility and spatial control, prisons, and mental health. Its goal is to move beyond social fears through a democratic security policy.