“Justice and politics”. Ferrajoli’s book presented at Libraccio

Monday 3 June at 5.45pm in the historic room of the San Crispino Oratory of the Library Bookboy of Ferrara, in collaboration with the Department of Law of Unife and the Center for European Legal Studies on Major Crime, Luigi Ferrajoli presents “Justice and politics” (The third). They dialogue with the author Orsetta Giolo, Daniele Negri and Paolo Veronesi.

From the back cover of the book: Over the last thirty years, crime in Italy has collapsed: murders, which in 1991 were 1,938, are now just over 300 and other crimes have also largely decreased. However, the prison population has almost doubled and the number of life sentences has more than quadrupled, going from 408 in 1992 to the current 1,867. Penal policy has also changed radically. Even in the 1990s, the majority of Italian parliamentarians were in favor of the abolition of life imprisonment, voted by the Senate on 30 April 1998 by a very large majority. Today all the forces present in Parliament reject, as a defamatory accusation, the idea of ​​being in favor of the abolition, not let’s say of life imprisonment, but even of the hard prison of life imprisonment. These extraordinary changes cannot be explained except as the effects of the reduction of guarantees of due process such as limits to punitive arbitrariness and the decline of the culture of guarantees both in the political class and in the judicial class. Against this regression, this book proposes the classic model of criminal jurisdiction as the assessment of legally predisposed crimes, on which its democratic legitimation is based. It proposes the strengthening of criminal and procedural guarantees suitable for implementing this model. Finally, it supports the need to develop a theory of criminal guaranteeism within a general theory of guaranteeism, on the basis of the theses that the majority of crimes are prevented with guarantees of rights and social policies, much more than with penal policies, and that guaranteeism Criminal law designates the last and most unfortunate of the techniques for guaranteeing public safety from crimes and arbitrary punishments.

Luigi Ferrajoli He is professor emeritus of philosophy of law at Roma Tre University. He is the author of numerous books, translated into multiple languages, including the recent ones Why an Earth Constitution?(Giappichelli 2021) e For a Constitution of the Earth. Humanity at the crossroads (Feltrinelli 2022). For Laterza he published:Law and reason. Theory of penal guaranteeism(1989); Sovereignty in the modern world (1997); Legal culture in twentieth-century Italy (1999); Fundamental rights. A theoretical debate (edited by E. Vitale, 2001); Principia iuris. Theory of law and democracy (3 volumes, 2007); Wild powers. The crisis of Italian democracy (2011); Democracy through rights (2013); The logic of law. Ten aporias in the work of Hans Kelsen (2016);Manifesto for equality (in 2019);The construction of democracy. Theory of constitutional guaranteeism(2021).

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