La criminalizzazione dell’«Altro di troppo»

[Autom. eng. transl.] In social contexts of disorientation and instability, in which the frantic attempt to identify congruous solutions to systemic contradictions is exacerbated, the tendency, immanent in human nature, to project individual and collective malaise onto a goat, is manifested with singular intensity. expiatory. Late modern democracies, in which "the social system tends to isolate individuals, deepening the solitude of their struggle for survival", represent a sadly privileged seat for the emergence and consolidation of these practices, which the literature explains to be inherent in human relationships. Never before have such mechanisms known, moreover, a translation in the ambit of criminal law, which comes to outline the context in which citizens, both directly and through media communication, express their anxiety and their search for justice .