The book analyses criminal law boundaries and criminal policy potentialities of such concepts as reputation, dignity, and honour. In the first part of the volume, honour and reputation are discussed, also with reference to the concept of human dignity, through an overview of the historical evolution of relevant criminal offences, of their theoretical as well as judicial interpretation, and of the social and cultural background that shapes their rich and complex meanings, and links honour, dignity and reputation to primary issues pertaining to the function and meaning of punishment. The study also covers other criminal offences which can shed further light on the nature and implications of the above mentioned concepts, such as honour killings and other honour crimes, duelling, and insult to public officials. This approach allows a better understanding of the contacts between honour/reputation, on the one hand, and personal identity, as well as privacy, on the other, particularly through the ‘liminal’ idea of a ‘right to be forgotten’ – a topic which is addressed more specifically with reference to the issue of divulging, or publishing anew, an individual’s criminal record. The second part of the book focuses on honour and reputation as currently protected under Italian criminal law, in comparison with the quite different approach taken by common law systems (particularly the English and American ones), which not only mainly or exclusively focus on private law remedies, but also define such interests in quite different ways. A comparison with, and a discussion of, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights is also provided. The final chapter proposes a new definition of the boundaries between honour, reputation, personal identity, and privacy, on the one hand, and human dignity, on the other, suggesting a possible reform of the current criminal law of defamation, also with the purposes of improving the coherence of the criminal law system as a whole, and promoting a better and more effective use of the ‘reputational’ component of criminal sanctions.

Nella prima parte dell’opera vengono analizzati i concetti onore e reputazione, anche in rapporto all’idea di dignità umana, attraverso una ricostruzione dell’evoluzione storica delle fattispecie penali poste a loro tutela, della loro interpretazione dottrinale e giurisprudenziale, del sostrato empirico-sociale che alimenta la ricchezza di significati e implicazioni dei concetti stessi e li collega, altresì, a primarie questioni relative al significato e alla funzione della sanzione penale. L’analisi si estende anche ad altre figure di reato ritenute particolarmente significative sotto tale duplice profilo, quali i c.d. delicta honoris causa, il reati di duello e le fattispecie di oltraggio. Nella seconda parte del volume i beni dell’onore e della reputazione, così come oggi tutelati nell’ordinamento penale italiano, vengono quindi posti a confronto con i loro omologhi, e con la relativa disciplina di tutela, negli ordinamenti di common law (in particolare in quello inglese e in quello americano), nonché con la giurisprudenza della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo, alla luce della ricostruzione sistematica precedentemente effettuata. Nel capitolo conclusivo si offre quindi una proposta di ridefinizione dei confini tra onore, reputazione e altri beni della personalità, da un lato, e dignità umana, dall’altro, in una prospettiva politico-criminale di possibile riforma delle fattispecie vigenti e di valorizzazione dell’elemento reputazionale già presente nella sanzione penale, in vista di un migliore sfruttamento delle sue potenzialità general- e special-preventive, oltre che di una migliore coerenza sistematica dell’ordinamento penale.

Visconti, A., Reputazione, dignità, onore. Confini penalistici e prospettive politico-criminali., Giappichelli Editore, Torino 2018:<<ITINERARI DI DIRITTO PENALE>>,86 698 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/115010]

Reputazione, dignità, onore. Confini penalistici e prospettive politico-criminali.

Visconti, Arianna
2018

Abstract

The book analyses criminal law boundaries and criminal policy potentialities of such concepts as reputation, dignity, and honour. In the first part of the volume, honour and reputation are discussed, also with reference to the concept of human dignity, through an overview of the historical evolution of relevant criminal offences, of their theoretical as well as judicial interpretation, and of the social and cultural background that shapes their rich and complex meanings, and links honour, dignity and reputation to primary issues pertaining to the function and meaning of punishment. The study also covers other criminal offences which can shed further light on the nature and implications of the above mentioned concepts, such as honour killings and other honour crimes, duelling, and insult to public officials. This approach allows a better understanding of the contacts between honour/reputation, on the one hand, and personal identity, as well as privacy, on the other, particularly through the ‘liminal’ idea of a ‘right to be forgotten’ – a topic which is addressed more specifically with reference to the issue of divulging, or publishing anew, an individual’s criminal record. The second part of the book focuses on honour and reputation as currently protected under Italian criminal law, in comparison with the quite different approach taken by common law systems (particularly the English and American ones), which not only mainly or exclusively focus on private law remedies, but also define such interests in quite different ways. A comparison with, and a discussion of, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights is also provided. The final chapter proposes a new definition of the boundaries between honour, reputation, personal identity, and privacy, on the one hand, and human dignity, on the other, suggesting a possible reform of the current criminal law of defamation, also with the purposes of improving the coherence of the criminal law system as a whole, and promoting a better and more effective use of the ‘reputational’ component of criminal sanctions.
2018
Italiano
Monografia o trattato scientifico
Giappichelli Editore
'Onore, reputazione e diritto penale', Milano, EduCatt, 2011
Visconti, A., Reputazione, dignità, onore. Confini penalistici e prospettive politico-criminali., Giappichelli Editore, Torino 2018:<<ITINERARI DI DIRITTO PENALE>>,86 698 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/115010]
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