Università Roma Tre

The course aims to offer a broad, multi-disciplinary view of law. The legal science is not an autonomous science. Law is a social phenomenon and as such should be studied. In the first parte of the course it will be analyzed the relation between the law and the society.
In the second and third part of the course, through an analysis of historical, sociological and philosophical sources, as well as thanks to empirical observation,
it will be studied the semantic field of the prison by offering student theoretical and sociological tools to distinguish the normative functions of the prison from the social ones. The students will analyze in an active and empirical way the distance between the normative and the social function of the prison penalty. In recent decades, trends of imprisonment in Italy, Europe and the USA have not followed the same direction as crime rates. Statistical data, organisational and economic models, penal system selectivity, the legal culture of prison operators and the surveillance judiciary will be analysed, also in order to understand the complex causes of the growth or decrease of detention rates.

For students who do not attend the course

1) Sociologia del diritto di Giuseppe Campesi, Luigi Pannarale, Ivan Populizio, Le Monnier, 2017
2) Bisogna avere visto, a cura di Patrizio Gonnella, Dario Ippolito, Gli Asini, 2019, in via di pubblicazione
3) The third book can be choosen between one of the following
Stefano Anastasia, Metamorfosi penitenziarie, Carcere, pena e mutamento sociale, Ediesse 2013
oppure
Christian De Vito, Camosci e girachiavi. Storia del carcere in Italia 1943-2007. Laterza, 2009
oppure
Patrizio Gonnella, Carceri. I confini della dignità, Jacabook, 2014