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According to what criteria have Early-modern European states managed social conflict, interpersonal violence, crime? When was judicial modernity born? According to what steps has the European West gone from one regime of penalties made of fierce torture and exemplary executions to another, dominated by the rational proportionality between the crime committed and the punishment inflicted and, above all, on the surveillance and discipline of the bodies? When and for what purposes was prison born? To what other modern institutions is prison comparable? The course aims to provide analysis tools useful for understanding one of the central issues of the relationship between power and society.
Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Michel Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi.
Programme
Criminality, justice and social control in Early Modern Europe.According to what criteria have Early-modern European states managed social conflict, interpersonal violence, crime? When was judicial modernity born? According to what steps has the European West gone from one regime of penalties made of fierce torture and exemplary executions to another, dominated by the rational proportionality between the crime committed and the punishment inflicted and, above all, on the surveillance and discipline of the bodies? When and for what purposes was prison born? To what other modern institutions is prison comparable? The course aims to provide analysis tools useful for understanding one of the central issues of the relationship between power and society.
Core Documentation
Books:Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Michel Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi.
Type of delivery of the course
tradizionaleType of evaluation
oral exam teacher profile teaching materials
According to what criteria have Early-modern European states managed social conflict, interpersonal violence, crime? When was judicial modernity born? According to what steps has the European West gone from one regime of penalties made of fierce torture and exemplary executions to another, dominated by the rational proportionality between the crime committed and the punishment inflicted and, above all, on the surveillance and discipline of the bodies? When and for what purposes was prison born? To what other modern institutions is prison comparable? The course aims to provide analysis tools useful for understanding one of the central issues of the relationship between power and society.
Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Michel Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi.
Programme
Criminality, justice and social control in Early Modern Europe.According to what criteria have Early-modern European states managed social conflict, interpersonal violence, crime? When was judicial modernity born? According to what steps has the European West gone from one regime of penalties made of fierce torture and exemplary executions to another, dominated by the rational proportionality between the crime committed and the punishment inflicted and, above all, on the surveillance and discipline of the bodies? When and for what purposes was prison born? To what other modern institutions is prison comparable? The course aims to provide analysis tools useful for understanding one of the central issues of the relationship between power and society.
Core Documentation
Books:Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Michel Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi.
Type of delivery of the course
tradizionaleType of evaluation
oral exam teacher profile teaching materials
According to what criteria have Early-modern European states managed social conflict, interpersonal violence, crime? When was judicial modernity born? According to what steps has the European West gone from one regime of penalties made of fierce torture and exemplary executions to another, dominated by the rational proportionality between the crime committed and the punishment inflicted and, above all, on the surveillance and discipline of the bodies? When and for what purposes was prison born? To what other modern institutions is prison comparable? The course aims to provide analysis tools useful for understanding one of the central issues of the relationship between power and society.
Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Michel Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi.
Programme
Criminality, justice and social control in Early Modern Europe.According to what criteria have Early-modern European states managed social conflict, interpersonal violence, crime? When was judicial modernity born? According to what steps has the European West gone from one regime of penalties made of fierce torture and exemplary executions to another, dominated by the rational proportionality between the crime committed and the punishment inflicted and, above all, on the surveillance and discipline of the bodies? When and for what purposes was prison born? To what other modern institutions is prison comparable? The course aims to provide analysis tools useful for understanding one of the central issues of the relationship between power and society.
Core Documentation
Books:Marco Bellabarba, La giustizia nell’Italia moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza.
Michel Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Torino, Einaudi.
Type of delivery of the course
tradizionaleType of evaluation
oral exam