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Migrazioni e carcere: riflessioni su pena e diritti

Santorso, Simone

Authors

Simone Santorso



Abstract

The article is intended to provide some insights into the troubled relationship between migrants and criminal detention highlighting, through the articulation of concepts such as 'Double track' as this relationship often has been develops through a denial of rights.
The article aims to underline how the execution of the sentence is a delicate phase of the criminal justice process, in which many core principles are translated into practices. The article based on ethnographic work in the prison of Northeast of Italy moves form a brief reconstruction of the legislative framework on migrations, to describe the prison experience of a migrant and how a the migrant status affect detention experience. This allows to highlight some discrepancies between principles, norms and practices. The concept of a circuit becomes the red thread that guides and links the narration.

Citation

Santorso, S. (2018). Migrazioni e carcere: riflessioni su pena e diritti. Antigone, XII(2), 109-128

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 18, 2018
Publication Date Nov 28, 2018
Deposit Date Dec 10, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume XII
Issue 2
Pages 109-128
Series ISSN 1828-437X
Keywords Criminalization of migrants; Detention; Social exclusion; Double track; Prison; Rights
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1176709
Publisher URL https://www.editorialescientifica.com