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The good, the bad and the ugly: images of the foreigner in contemporary criminal law
2018
Since the end of the Second World War, the criminal law of Western states has tried to legitimate itself, in basically democratic-republican terms, as primarily addressed towards citizens. During approximately the last 20 years, however, new dimensions of criminal law have emerged, which refer paradigmatically (not to the citizen, but) to the foreigner and subject him/her to worse legal treatment than that which is considered legitimate when either citizens or ‘good’ foreigners are concerned. Next to the ideal-type of the citizen criminal law (also applicable, by assimilation, to the ‘good’ foreigner) a criminal law for ‘ugly’ mass-foreigners (crimmigration) and one for ‘bad’ foreigners (en…
L'espulsione del migrante e la "materia penale" tra prevenzione e repressione
2018
A partire dalla constatazione delle molteplici forme che la misura dell'espulsione dello straniero assume nell'ordinamento italiano e collocandosi nella prospettiva - oramai acquisita da gran parte della cultura penalistica - del definitivo superamento di una visione strettamente formalistica di materia penale, il contributo analizza in chiave critica la misura in oggetto, sottoponendola la banco di prova dei criteri impiegati tanto in dottrina, quanto dalla giurisprudenza della costituzionale e della corte Edu per determinare la natura “punitiva” o non “punitiva” di uno strumento afflittivo. Il fine dell'indagine è dii soppesare significati e finalità dell'espulsione sia rispetto alla nozi…
I delitti di inquinamento ambientale e di disastro ambientale in una recente proposta di riforma del legislatore italiano.
2015
Abstract The reform concerning “ecocrimes” recently approved by the Parliament impressed a significant change to environmental criminal law in Italy. Amongst the most important novelties introduced by the reform, this paper considers the criminal offences of “Inquinamento ambientale” (environmental pollution) and of “Disastro ambientale” (environmental disaster), which are paradigmatic examples of the legislator’s attempt to balance the criminal-political needs for repressing the most serious forms of aggression against environment with the need for adopting a legislative technique of description of the offences coherent with the peculiarities of the protected legal good and with the modali…
Profili penali e problemi politico-criminali dell'intervento multilivello sugli stupefacenti
2014
l contributo esamina alcuni problemi di fondo connessi all’intervento penalistico in materia di stupefacenti, assumendolo quale settore esemplare per indicare la complessità del diritto penale moderno. In particolare, si segnala tanto la difficoltà di ricostruire la prevenzione del relativo fenomeno sociale come affidato a strumenti omogenei, quanto la crisi del ruolo di extrema ratio del diritto penale all’interno di tale articolata serie di interventi. Le principali vicende italiane sulle fondamentali opzioni in materia sono quindi collocate nello scenario internazionale, che condiziona i sistemi giuridici statuali ad una strategia differenziata rispetto ai due versanti del traffico illec…
Sulle tracce della crimmigration in Europa: l'espulsione dello straniero in un confronto fra Spagna, Italia e Francia
2019
Seguendo le linee di tendenza emerse con riguardoall’ordinamento italiano, il saggio analizza in chiave comparata la legislazione spagnola e francese in materia di espulsione dello straniero ed evidenzia anche le normative straniere esaminate, al pari di quella italiana, attribuiscano a tale misura una natura proteiforme, che sembra pensata ad hoc per generare discutibili forme di ibridazione tra le funzioni proprie della “moderna” espulsione-amministrativa quale strumento di gestione del fenomeno. migratorio e le funzioni punitivo/sanzionatorie del modello “classico” di espulsione-sanzione penale destinato a colpire lo straniero divenuto “indesiderato”, in quanto reo. Se ne ricava la confe…
La suprema giurisdizione nella Sardegna moderna. Travagli della Real Audiencia (1564-1651)
2019
The institution of the Real Audiencia in the kingdom of Sardinia since the 1560s is part of a wider process which saw the rise and development of royal supreme courts of justice in several European countries of the early modern period. In fact, major State formation processes all around Europe required that monarchs increased their control on local authorities and that new increasingly centralised systems of judicial review gained precedence over all particular jurisdictions, feudal as well as municipal. This brought about a dramatic transformation in the field of criminal law enforcement and administration of justice.
Attacking cultural property to destroy a community: heritage destruction as a crime against humanity and genocide
2020
Cultural heritage, if considered in a multilevel dimension, represents the essence of a population. Attacks against tangible cultural heritage can amount to persecution or ethnic cleansing if committed with a discriminatory intent. For their nature, such attacks are often accompanied by destruction of intangible cultural heritage targeting the language, the traditions and the uses of a people. They cause, alongside tremendous losses of something unique and irreplaceable, psychological damages to the communities linked to them. An episode of cultural cleansing like the removal of communities by eradicating their cultural presence on a land encompasses also deliberate attacks against cultural…
Mobilità dei reati nello spazio transfrontaliero e nuovi confini delle norme penali: verso una giurisdizione “a geometria variabile”?
2018
The actual empirical reality, in which the most important criminal manifestations are articulated according to modalities which cross the territorial frontiers of the States, imposes new normative solutions which - in the attempt not to leave 'pockets' of impunity - can redraw the traditional boundaries of the criminal regulations. In a context pervaded by international interventions of criminalization of the most serious forms of manifestation of crime (above all, the Palermo Convention and its Protocols), there is, first of all, at the domestic level, a change of the same territorial paradigm of the criminal law, which adapts the exercise of jurisdiction according to "variable geometries"…
EXPANSION OF GLOBAL RULE BY LAW ENFORCEMENT: COLOMBIA’S EXTRADITION EXPERIENCE, 1999–2017
2018
We argue that transnational criminal law has enacted a global rule by law enforcement agencies, at odds with the rule of law. Mutual legal assistance agreements (MLAA) allow exporting law enforcement practices without proper judicial oversight. Consequently defendants required in extradition are exposed to abuses, as illustrated here with extradition cases from Colombia to the United States of America (USA) in the past decades. Based on the critical review of documental and statistic information coming from official and independent sources in the U.S. and Colombia, this article pinpoints specific shortcomings that affect due process and fair trials in the case of extradited defendants. Conc…
Il diritto penale oltre la frontiera
2023
A partire dalla considerazione del ruolo che il principio di territorialità riveste nel diritto penale, il contributo sviluppa una rapida riflessione sui rapporti tra cosmopolitismo giuridico e diritto penale e si interroga sui possibili influssi che le teorie sul fondamento universalistico dei diritti umani possono esercitare sul sistema penale stato-centrico.