I «Battelli del Reno» nella transizione postmoderna. Economia sociale di mercato e società commerciali come forme di gestione di servizi a carattere non (solo) privatistico. La nozione di «ente pubblico» agli effetti della legge penale

The debate on the «Battelli del Reno» – meaning a transformation of the social interest in forms that transcend their merely lucrative character – is considerably topical. Born from the processes of privatisation and externalisation of public bodies and sharing the subjugation of the employment of the societal scheme to purposes that were traditionally alien to it, the hybrid organisms that have thus developed have given rise to different interpretations as to their legal nature. For criminal law, such typological evolutions – object of this article’s focus – imply a rethinking of the notion of public body, so to solve the systematic conflict deriving from the non-unequivocal criterion adopted, on this point, by the Italian legislator.