What is it about?
Criminal law has a specific expressive force and, as such, it both describes and shapes the very delicate relationship between the individual and the community. By studying the changes undergone in the past decades by three specific features of Italian criminal law (insult to a public official, false accounting, and self-defence), this article explores how this relationship appears to have changed under different political regimes and through powerful socio-economic transformations.
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Why is it important?
In the perspective of a critical 'Law and the Humanities' approach, the analysis and comparison of the evolution of the three selected 'sample' features of Italian criminal law may help understanding how a broader 'social narrative' of what Italian society is and should be has developed through the past decades, also shedding some light on the deceptive potential of criminal law itself, which we may assume to be related to its intrinsic ‘symbolic’ quality.
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I hope this article will catch the interest of those who are attracted by a critical approach to criminal law and criminal policy, as well as by a 'Law and the Humanities' perspective. It could also possibly be of interest for those who are curious about Italian criminal law, but who cannot read Italian.
Arianna Visconti
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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This page is a summary of: A “Narrative” of the Individual-Community Relationship through the “Lenses” of Criminal Law: Three Sketches of Mystification, Pólemos, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/pol-2017-0019.
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