Abstract

After some general considerations on the political context in which Law No 134 of 27 September 2021 was born, the work briefly examines the main substantive aspects of the penal reform, grouping them around three major nuclei. The first is the extinction of the offence due to the passage of time. The second is that of the institutes in which substantive and procedural profiles intersect in an essentially deflative function. The third is the introduction of a system of alternative sanctions to short prison sentences and the full acceptance of the restorative justice paradigm.