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Omicidi mirati a mezzo drone: brevi riflessioni a margine del caso "Lo Porto" tra diritto penale e diritto internazionale
2018
Quale diritto penale in ipotesi di "vittime collaterali" di drone strike? La sempre maggiore rilevanza che il fenomeno degli omicidi mirati a mezzo drone assume nel contesto internazionale pone la necessità di interrogarsi su come, nell'ordinamento interno, le categorie classiche del diritto penale debbano operare rispetto a fattispecie "peculiari", caratterizzate da una distanza fisica e psichica dal target e dall’esistenza di una “catena di comando” coinvolta, a più livelli, nella singola operazione di omicidio mirato. Si cercherà pertanto di capire, partendo dal caso dell'omicidio di un cittadino italiano per mezzo di droni statunitensi in Pakistan, ma fornendo un contributo di portata p…
Il negazionismo: fenomenologia e profili normativi
2022
Media’s portrayal of CAM: Exploring 40 years of narratives and meanings in public discourse
2021
The media are a key element in being able to assess how the climate of public opinion regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) has evolved over the years. The aim of this study is to explore the variation of the media representations along 40 years (1979–2018) in Spanish newspapers to assess if the press has contributed to legitimise, delegitimise or maintain the status quo of these therapies. From quantitative and qualitative approaches, we evaluate the media attention, the narratives, linguistic terms and tone used, and the relations between them. Results indicate the media reporting on CAM has remained relatively stable during the first 37 years (1979–2015) of the study, …
The rationale for and practice of EIA follow-up: an analysis of Finnish road projects
2015
Follow-up is often considered to be a weak or even missing element in environmental impact assessment (EIA). Though it is recognized that follow-up practices could provide useful opportunities to learn from projects’ actual consequences, the practice is criticized for not achieving this goal. In this paper, we aim to clarify the relationship between the theoretical rationale for EIA follow-up and the actual practices carried out in a Finnish EIA context. An empirical analysis was performed with follow-up documents. The findings indicate that follow-ups focused on dealing with environmental impacts related to the physical environment, e.g., flora, fauna, and ground and surface waters. Social…
Complying With the First Law of Robotics: An Analysis of the Occupational Risks Associated With Work Directed by an Algorithm/Artificial Intelligence
2020
It is increasingly common for companies to use artificial intelligence mechanisms, which may be more or less advanced, to manage work, that is, to establish work shifts and production times, design and allocate tasks for workers, recruit workers, evaluate performance and dismiss employees. Companies rely on technology to gather all the information available, process it and make the management decisions (productivity optimisation) that will benefit them the most. This replaces human supervisors and middle managers, as well as experts in human resources, leaving the management of workers in the hands of automated processes directed by algorithms – or in its most advanced stage, to be undertak…
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…
Inversión educativa y contracción del Estado del Bienestar : un análisis del contexto autonómico tras la crisis sistémica de 2008
2018
En España, el estallido de la crisis sistémica de 2008 y su prolongada duración han supuesto desafíos adicionales para el mantenimiento del Estado del Bienestar y, particularmente, para la educación, el Servicio Público Fundamental que más afectado se ha visto por la aplicación de políticas de contracción presupuestaria durante este período. El presente trabajo explora cómo se ha comportado la inversión educativa en las distintas regiones españolas a lo largo de los últimos años, y trata de conocer más acerca del papel que han jugado las distintas administraciones en la asignación de recursos a esta partida. Para ello, esta investigación ha conformado dos bloques de CC.AA. de acuerdo con la…
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…