Building Democratic Resilience: Protecting the Public Sphere From Violent Extremism
The article “Building Democratic Resilience: Protecting the Public Sphere From Violent Extremism” aims to propose a new theoretical framework for democratic resilience.
Scuola di Cultura Politica - 16th Edition
Applications are now open for the 16th Edition of the Scuola di Cultura Politica [School of Political Culture], organized by the Casa della Cultura in Milan for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Preventing Violence Against Women Between Compulsory Health Assessments and Public Shaming
The two central components of the Italian Bill 1517 reveal a profound sense of collective disorientation in the face of male violence against women. The legislative response appears to be an expressive and performative one, oscillating between preventive medical punishment and public shaming—offering little room for the layered, nuanced approaches that this deeply sensitive area of intervention requires.
Youth, Social Issues, and Crime: What Policies for Local Authorities?
On April 7th, the webinar "Youth, Social Issues, and Crime: What Policies for Local Authorities?" will take place, aiming to examine the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in order to identify effective intervention strategies.
Enrollment Open for the Advanced Course in CRIMINOLOGY, RIGHTS SECURITY, AND URBAN POLICIES
From 30 December 2024 to 21 February 2025, applications are open for the Advanced Course in Criminology, Rights Security, and Urban Policies for the 2024-2025 academic year.
A Compass for Rethinking Security Policies
The challenge of moving from security rights for some to security rights for all.
R. Cornelli, O. Binik, L. Natali (2020), When 'Message Laws' Create Perpetual Panic: the Case of Sex Offenders Registries
This contribution defines ‘Megan’s Laws’ as ‘message laws’, that is, those penal laws that carry a message not only coherent with the cultural impetus supporting their adoption but also anticipating something that is not (yet) acceptable to manifest openly inWestern politics.
R. Cornelli (2019), La paura nel campo penale. Una storia del presente
Reflecting on the intertwining of fear, violence and order as a constitutive trait of modern societies and on the projection of this intertwining in the contemporary world is essential to critically read today's political orientations and choices in the field of criminal law, urban security and counter-terrorism and, at the same time, allows us not to look away from that emptiness of imagination that is linked to the difficulty of thinking differently about the role of politics, which is forced into increasingly narrow and narrow spaces of action.