It is desirable to create an international university consortium
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Rome, 05 March 2025 – “With the volume “Il mondo della pena diario di un lungo viaggio alla ricerca di un equilibrio tra sicurezza e diritti dell’uomo” (“The world of punishment diary of a long journey in search of a balance between security and human rights”) the problem of punishment has been brought directly into Italian universities and universities in several foreign countries. An important and difficult to imagine goal has been reached. With the wall of indifference and suspicion that generally surrounds the execution of punishment, it was difficult to imagine the realization of such a significant diffusion of this text within so many universities and so many research centers. In the field of law, there was then a further wall that always concerned the aspect of execution, that is, the wall of the execution of punishment understood as a question of a purely legal nature, the wall of the execution of punishment understood as a question that could be the object of arguments having a dignity of a scientific nature. While in civil law the execution phase, or the implementation in reality of the provisions contained in the titles and sentences, has always been considered of legal importance in the same way as the phases preceding the execution, in criminal law, instead, it was a widespread perception that the boundaries of the law generally coincided with the end of the procedural phase. Generally speaking, the execution of the sentence has always been seen, almost, as an extra-juridical phase, as if it were not truly part of the law, it has always been seen more than anything as a security problem and as a problem of a human and social nature. Having caused deep cracks in these walls, can only do good for the purposes of a clear understanding and awareness of the full gravity of the prison problem, and therefore, for the purposes of providing new energy and new technical legal efforts aimed at improving the situation. Furthermore, the diffusion of the volume will contribute to the formation of a new class of jurists capable of looking at the same time and with an overall vision, both at the aspect of security and at the aspect of human rights, without any embarrassment and without one aspect implying in the slightest the exclusion of the other. It will contribute to the formation of a new class of jurists, attentive not only to the formal data, attentive not only to what the law provides, but also attentive to reality, to the aspect of concrete execution, and therefore, to the formation of a new class of jurists more eager to adapt reality to the legislation. In addition to this, the presence of the volume in many law libraries of foreign countries, will contribute to the strengthening of the aspects of comparison between different penal systems, will contribute to the comparison between the different critical issues of the systems and between the different solutions adopted or to be adopted, will stimulate the comparison between different methodologies of re-education and reintegration. It should be noted, therefore, that the volume in question is currently present at the Library of the Constitutional Court, the Library of the Chamber of Deputies “Nilde Iotti”, the Central Legal Library of the Ministry of Justice, the Library of the Magistrates of the Court of Cassation, the G. Tartaglione Library of the Court of Appeal of Naples, the Library of the Court of Auditors, the Library of the Council of State, the Library of the Luiss Guido Carli University, the Antonio Cicu Legal Library of the University of Bologna, the “G. Zanotto” Library – Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Verona, the Economic-Legal Area Library of the University of Foggia, the Legal Area Library of the University of Naples “Federico II”, the Law Library – Criminal Law Section of the University of Palermo, the Library of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The book in question is also present at the Library of the European Court of Human Rights, the Library of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the National Central Library of Rome, the Library of the School of Social Sciences – Law Department “P.E. Bensa” of the University of Genoa, the Unified Law Library of the University of Perugia, the Central University Library “Card. Attilio Nicora” of the Lumsa University of Rome, the Interuniversity Library Cujas (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas) – France, the Library of the Faculty of Law of Harvard University – USA, the Library of Legal Sciences of the University of Catania, the Interdepartmental Library of Legal Sciences – Criminal Law Department of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Furthermore, the aforementioned volume is present in the Economics and Law Library of the University of Brescia, the Law Library of the University of Pisa, the “Bodleian” Law Library of the University of Oxford – United Kingdom, the “Lillian Goldman” Law and Jurisprudence Library of Yale University – USA, the Law and Political Science Library of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, the “G. Marconi” Central Library of the National Research Council, the “Squire” Law Library of the University of Cambridge – United Kingdom, the Europa Library – Legal Sciences of the University of Trieste, the Law Library of the University of Parma, the Public Law Library – Criminal Law Branch of the University of Padua. In addition, the aforementioned volume is present in the Law Library of the University of Ferrara, the “Norberto Bobbio” Library of the University of Turin, the Library of Legal and Humanistic Studies of the University of Milan – La Statale, the Legal Sciences Library of the University of Cagliari, the Legal and Political Science Area Library “Circolo Giuridico” of the University of Siena, the Library of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pavia, the Legal Area Library of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Library of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law – Freiburg – Germany, the University Law Library of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In addition, the book in question is also present in the Social Sciences Library of the University of Florence, the Alessandrina University Library, the Legal Area Library of the University of Roma Tre, the Economics and Law Library of the University of Bergamo, the “Pietro De Vecchis” Law Library of the Bank of Italy, the “Jean Claude Colliard” Law Library (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) – France, the Library of the Faculty of Law of the University of Heidelberg, Germany, the Central Library – Legal Sciences Area of the University of Messina, the “Robert Crown” Law Library of Stanford University, California, USA. Finally, the book il mondo della pena is also present at the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science – London – United Kingdom, the Library of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library of the Columbia Law School, New York – USA, the Law Library of the Berkeley University – USA, the Library of the Law Area – University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, the Law Library of the University of Camerino, the “Ezio Tarantelli” Library of the University of Calabria, the Library of the Scuola Normale di Pisa – Capitano site – Social Sciences, the Economic Area Library of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. It is, therefore, desirable that the aforementioned diffusion of the volume, in addition to causing cracks in the walls, can then also serve to build bridges, and more specifically it is desirable that following the diffusion of the volume the premises and conditions can then be created for a real consortium to arise between various Italian and foreign universities having as its object the specific problem of the execution of of punishment”. This was stated in a note by the author of the volume, the Roman lawyer Giuseppe Maria Meloni, spokesperson since 2017 for the initiative Piazza delle Carceri e della Sicurezza del cittadino, and former president from 2006 to 2014 of the Movimento Clemenza e Dignità Association.
