- Docente: Massimo Pavarini
- Credits: 7
- SSD: IUS/17
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)
Course contents
The specific training targets of the Penitentiary Law: knowledge of
the complex changes which have taken place the law of corrections
from 1975 to date.
In particular, the course will focus on substitute punishments,
alternative measures and prison benefits, including the procedural
aspects of sentencing enforcement.
Indepth historical and comparative study of so called "escape" from
prison sentencing, i.e. the extension of the range of
punishmentsfor reasons of justice, special-preventive aims
and other utilitarian ends.
A study of punishments in theory and in practice; the criteria
underlying sentencing in practice; the discretionary power of
judges and "constitutionally oriented" sentencing.
Some reference will be made to the sociology of sentencing in
modern penology, especially thecrisis ofi correctional model
of justice, the emergence of social discipline systems "outside the
prison walls" and the present process of ri-carceration.
Office hours
See the website of Massimo Pavarini