Abstract

The aim of this article is to trace a socio-legal framework of coercive prevention of social danger from a law-critical perspective. Theoretically speaking this research field has been discretely explored, but proves often inaccessible to empirical analysis. Many are the specialized studies on the different measures that can be adopted in Italy, few, however, are the researches that question the overall purpose of this system, which is a reflection of the intertwining of institutional practices exercised by different actors and an expression of the preventive power of the state and local actors. This is why a reading framework can be useful to understand the aims, rationales and purposes actually pursued by the measures and the system as a whole, but also to hypothesize what productive effects the measures potentially generate on the measures recipients and society