BookCity 2023 for Social Affairs
This year too, the Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty will be present at BookCity with events that will take place at the Palace of Justice in Milan, at the Institute for Attenuated Custody for Detained Mothers (ICAM), at the State University of Milan and at the Puntozero Beccaria Theatre.
Participation in all BookCity 2023 events is free.
15 November 2023 10 hours: 30
University of Milan - via Festa del Perdono, 7 - Room 113
"Police, abuse and populism in contemporary Italy"
The institution of the police constitutes one of the cornerstones of the modern state.
The maintenance of public order, respect for the laws, repression of crime have accompanied the affirmation and reproduction of capitalist production relations.
Although Robert Peel (who established the Metropolitan Police in 1829) set himself the goal of making the police an interface between state and society, with the aim of mitigating the conflicts of industrial society, the effects have been opposite.
Social, economic, racial and sexual inequalities have meant that the work of the police supports and reproduces the distinction between the hard-working and dangerous classes.
This book explores the actions of the police forces starting from the contradiction between the maintenance of public order and social peace and the repressive practices that often degenerate into tragic episodes.
Starting from the analysis of the tragic deaths of Federico Aldrovandi and Riccardo Magherini, the text leads the reader in a detailed analysis of the organizational models and police practices, which reflect the populist climate of contemporary societies, within which private forms are also asserting themselves and private police.
Participating in the event:
- Stefano Simonetta, University contact person for supporting university studies for people subjected to measures restricting their freedom
- Vincenzo Scalia – Associate Professor of Sociology of Deviance at the University of Florence – author
- Letizia Mancini - Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Milan
- Valeria Verdolini – President of Antigone Lombardia
- Emanuele Mancini – Magistrate at the Court of Milan
Moderator of the Round Table: Francesco Maisto – Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty of the Municipality of Milan.
16 November 2023 15 hours: 00
Institute for Attenuated Custody of Detained Mothers of Milan (ICAM) - Via Macedonio Melloni, 53
Stories of women behind bars: why cross the threshold of these lives?
Women prisoners represent just 4 percent of the entire prison population and perhaps this is why little is said about them, marginalized among the marginalized.
Katya Maugeri tries to give a voice to the prisoners, letting them talk about fears, sadness, regrets, "no time". «A non-time – writes the author – which forces you to count the tiles of the cell, to introduce superstitious rites and habits that do not belong to a defined time, marked by hours. They are hands that rotate in the opposite direction, bizarre, difficult to understand for us, free human beings, who live a daily life far from restrictions." In this book the women interviewed do not have names, but numbers: the number of their cell.
Cells upon leaving which, however, "felt free to express their testimony with the aim of telling that cross-section of society that is not always brought to light" and they spoke about themselves without making any concessions, admitting "the mistakes made with the clear awareness of doing so."
They speak from the outside, these women, and they are happy to be outside, but they continue to hear the noise of the bars, aware that they have built them with their choices.
Participating in the event:
- Francesco Maisto, Guarantor of the rights of persons deprived of personal liberty of the Municipality of Milan – moderator / presenter
- Katya Maugeri - author
- Diana De Marchi - President of the Equal Opportunities and Civil Rights Commission of the Municipality of Milan
- Giacinto Siciliano – Director of the Milan Prison – San Vittore
- Valentina Alberta – President of the Criminal Chamber of Milan
Event by reservation with limited places.
To participate, send an email to: educators.cc.milano@giustizia.it, attaching a copy of your identity document and specifying the title of the event.
17 November 2023 14 hours: 30
Palace of Justice - via Carlo Freguglia, 1 - Ambrosoli Library
"Anger, violence and prison: a vicious circle?"
In this informative essay we discuss what apparently seem synonymous: angry and angry, furious and enraged, wrathful and wrathful, choleric and angry. In reality, evidence of a character type belongs to the first terms, while behavioral evidence belongs to the second ones.
None of us escape anger, at least once a day. In fact, anger is nothing but a feeling to which we can entrust frustration, humiliation, criticism of a behavior or an action or a word expressed against us. In this essay, therefore, the various ways that channel this feeling, which is often difficult to govern, will be illustrated.
Full of examples and clinical stories, from children to women, from prisoners to pious men, from the elderly to adolescents, the essay will also illustrate the remedies for managing anger so that this feeling does not turn into the crystallization of hatred. or, worse, resentment.
Participating in the event:
- Antonino La Lumia – President of the Bar Association -
- Renato Rizzi – curator
- Roberto Bezzi - Legal pedagogical officer of the Milan Prison - Bollate
- Laura Vaira – Criminologist
- Antonella Calcaterra – lawyer
- Roberto Cornelli – Full Professor of Criminology at the State University of Milan
Moderator of the Round Table: Francesco Maisto – Guarantor of the rights of people deprived of personal liberty of the Municipality of Milan.
Presentation of the book "Thinking about Judging - Psychology and Law edited by Marco Vinicio Masoni
18 November 2023 16 hours: 30
Puntozero Theater - via Calchi e Taeggi, 20
Creative relationships or rigid rules: minors, crimes, justice
Dialogue with the authors of the book of different backgrounds and professions, on the topic of judging as a difficult topic to define and anything but obvious.
Participating in the event:
- Francesca Perrini – Director of the Center for Juvenile Justice in Milan
- Marco Vinicio Masoni – book editor
- Cosima Buccoliero – Director of the “Beccaria” Penal Institute for Juveniles in Milan
- Don Luigi Burgio - IPM Beccaria chaplain
- Patrizia Patrizi - Professor of Legal Psychology at the University of Sassari and president of the European Forum for Restorative Justice
- Bruna Dighera - legal psychologist, facilitator in “Restorative” Justice
- Giuseppe Centomani - former Director of the Center for Juvenile Justice of Bari for Puglia and Basilicata
Moderator of the Round Table: Francesco Maisto – Guarantor of the rights of people deprived of personal liberty of the Municipality of Milan.
Updated: 30/10/2023