Complementary Course: Punitive Justice and Restorative Justice
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
This module has the purpose to present the main philosophical and legal issues - along with the fundamental interpretive tools and notions - concerning the study of vindicatory legal orders and the mechanisms of restorative justice.
The module also aims to provide students with the skill to apply those notions to the analysis of selected case-law and judicial decisions.
Concerning the bibliography, this module aims to make students able to critically engage the study of examined authors.
Lastly, the module has the purpose to generally improve students' learning skills.
The module also aims to provide students with the skill to apply those notions to the analysis of selected case-law and judicial decisions.
Concerning the bibliography, this module aims to make students able to critically engage the study of examined authors.
Lastly, the module has the purpose to generally improve students' learning skills.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will have learned some fundamental concepts to orient himself in the understanding of the structure and functioning of vindictive legal systems and of the mechanisms of restorative justice.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Criminal phenomenon, primitive and savage form of justice, moral obligation, mechanism of conflict composition, legal order. Throughout history - and from a variety of points of view - revenge has been diversely interpreted and defined. This module offers to law and philosophy students the opportunity to acquire familiarity with the main conceptual tools for an interdisciplinary study of vindicatory legal orders. Also, the module includes a comparative analysis scrutinizing commonalities and fundamental distinctions of institutions and instruments typical of vindicatory justice and the core structure of restorative justice.
Analytical program
Vindicatory justice. Vindicatory vs. vindictive. Composition. Blood-revenge. Restorative justice and its field of application. Restorative vs. vindicatory.
Analytical program
Vindicatory justice. Vindicatory vs. vindictive. Composition. Blood-revenge. Restorative justice and its field of application. Restorative vs. vindicatory.
Prerequisites for admission
Having attended or being attending Philosophy of Law.
Teaching methods
Classroom-taught
Teaching Resources
Paolo Di Lucia e Letizia Mancini (eds.), La giustizia vendicatoria, Pisa, ETS, 2015.
Paolo Di Lucia e Riccardo Mazzola (eds.), Vindicta. Studi e testi sulla giustizia vendicatoria. Milano, Led, 2019.
Grazia Mannozzi e Giovanni Lodigiani, La giustizia riparativa: Formanti, parole e metodi, Torino: Giappichelli, 2017.
Didier Fassin, Punire. Una passione contemporanmea. Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017.
Paolo Di Lucia e Riccardo Mazzola (eds.), Vindicta. Studi e testi sulla giustizia vendicatoria. Milano, Led, 2019.
Grazia Mannozzi e Giovanni Lodigiani, La giustizia riparativa: Formanti, parole e metodi, Torino: Giappichelli, 2017.
Didier Fassin, Punire. Una passione contemporanmea. Milano, Feltrinelli, 2017.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exams and/or presentations.
IUS/20 - PHILOSOPHY OF LAW - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor:
Di Lucia Paolo Umberto Maria
Educational website(s)
Professor(s)