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How does justice for non-citizens look like? This book provides a nuanced cross-section of how criminal courts deliver justice to non-citizens, investigating rationales and purposes of penal power directed at foreign defendants. It examines how lack of citizenship alters the contours of justice, creating a different system oriented at control and exclusion of non-members. Drawing on ethnographic research in an Italian criminal court, the book details how citizenship and national belonging not only matter, but are matters reproduced, elaborated, and negotiated throughout the judicial process, exploring the implications of this development for the understanding of penal power and the role of c...
This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions. It builds not only on global criminological debates but also on southern criminological concerns, thereby enriching border criminology conversations by expanding the epistemological boundaries of these academic debates. It asks a variety of questions. What is the part being played by detention practices at the national level and h...
Napoli e l’Italia degli anni ’50, ’60 e ’70 vengono raccontate da un baby boomer nato nel primo anno della seconda metà del secolo scorso, attraverso il filtro del ricordo dei suoi familiari e amici. “Tracce” di anime e cose, rese immortali dalla voce narrante, che consentono a persone e luoghi scomparsi o modificati nel tempo di restare ancora in vita non solo nella sua memoria, ma ora anche in quella del lettore. Napoletano, già professore ordinario di Biochimica presso le Università di Palermo e “Federico II” di Napoli, Raffaele Porta è oggi presidente onorario della Società Italiana di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare. Dal 1995 al 2006 ha svolto diversi incarichi pol...