Journal title GRUPPI
Author/s Francesco Schiaffo
Publishing Year 2017 Issue 2017/1
Language Italian Pages 25 P. 13-37 File size 283 KB
DOI 10.3280/GRU2017-001002
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The "social dangerousness" in the Italian criminal system is the subject of numerous critical remarks, the consequences of which are becoming increasingly evident through the legislative process of overcoming the Judicial Psychiatric Hospital. The paper highlights the historical path of this concept in Italian law to the current outcomes that see it evolve into that of "latent dangerousness" and expand due to the absence of legal limits to the punitive sovereignty of jurists and the failure to overcome the biological dogma in mental health. A dangerous déjà-vu seems to manifest itself in the activation of a vicious circle in which the processes of psychiatric-judicial institutionalization and those of medicalisation of criminal sanctions, reinforce each other.
Keywords: Social dangerousness, Judicial Psychiatric Hospital, Italian law n. 103/2017, Forensic mental health.
Francesco Schiaffo, Dalla "pericolosità sociale" alla "necessità della cura": la medicalizzazione delle sanzioni penali nella Legge n. 103/2017 in "GRUPPI" 1/2017, pp 13-37, DOI: 10.3280/GRU2017-001002