\u2018Modernisation\u2019 of institutions of social and penal control in Italy/Europe: the \u2018new\u2019 crime prevention

The first part of the contribution looks at the genealogy of a preoccupation with local crime prevention, of a non-penal nature, in Europe and more specifically in Italy. The second part looks at the current situation of (non-penal) crime prevention policies in Europe and Italy

La criminalizzazione del dissenso

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Criminalising dissent: key themes and emerging trends

This chapter outlines the contribution this volume makes to the criminological and multi-disciplinary literature on the criminalisation of protest and dissent. It documents key trends and reflects on emerging issues. In particular, we discuss concepts and dynamics that are common to many chapters and are strikingly similar around the globe; these are the ‘continuum’ of the process of criminalisation and the complex ‘infrastructure’ of criminalisation of protest and dissent. We also discuss the implications of these dynamics for democracy and freedom, highlighting the absence of significant differences between the criminalisation of dissent and activism in long-term liberal democracies, democracies with a recent or less recent authoritarian past, hybrid or fragile democracies, and authoritarian contexts

Terror carceralism: Surveillance, security governance and de/civilization

Following the first 15 convictions under the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act, Canadian penal authorities developed new surveillance and security practices targeting this small population of prisoners. Primarily, reforms ensure that terror convicts are labelled as highly dangerous offenders, despite any of them having participated in attacks or violence. Focusing on the Canadian context, this article contributes to recent scholarship by discussing how these emergent penal practices are informed by a convergence of domestic anti-terrorism policies and a networked field of counter-terrorism experts; what Bigo calls (in)security management professionals. Detailing recent debates and reforms, I focus on emergent 'deradicalization' strategies that are informed by transnational 'working groups' and (in)security management actors. I argue that these increasingly illiberal counter-terrorism practices are framed as measures of social defence against the enemies of western civilization. Yet, paradoxically, these emergent security practices are antithetical to the 'civilizing process' of penal modernism, further displacing discourses of rehabilitation or reintegration and entrenching a 'criminology of the other'. I conclude by discussing what I call new practices of terror carceralism, which represent an entrenchment of vengeance and retribution, justifying a host of invasive surveillance and security measures against those caricaturized as captured terrorist others