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Susanna Vezzadini

Associate Professor

Department of Political and Social Sciences

Academic discipline: SPS/12 Sociology of Law, Deviance and Social Change

Research

Keywords: restorative justice Juvenile Justice System Victims of crime mediation between victims and offenders Penitentiary system and prison reformas

Victimology represets the field of sudies able to analyze the complexity of the relationship among victims of crime, perpetrators and society. Actually, a crime produces always - among citizens - fear, social warning and anxiety; that is why we need to manage instruments like, i.e., the ones of restorative justice, abale to have a positive influence on this feelings and attitudes. In the same time, a new attention should be devoted to penitentiary system and prison reforms, in order to feed the basic concepts of resocialization and reeducation of a deep sense and meanings.