Criminal bulimiaOnce again, there is an unsolicited push to create new criminal offences in response to the events in Milan. Short circuitsThe defining feature of this widespread Pavlovian political reflex (“a serious incident has occurred, so I’ll tinker with the Criminal Code”) is that the laws that are enacted – to great fanfare in front of cameras and on social media – are, at best, entirely pointless, because you realise that the conduct they are intended to punish was, of course, already punishable under previous legislation byGian Domenico Caiazza21 OCT 26
The allure of the gallowsThe land of public shaming. Judicial error and its breeding groundThe investigation and the suspicion, presented to the public as the solution to the criminal mystery. The Tortora case and, today, the Garlasco casebyGian Domenico Caiazza5 OCT 26
The analysisSexual violence, or the harm caused by rules that are also intended to send a messageWhen rules are written in the same spirit as a slogan, they only cause trouble. The case of the 13-year-old girl sexually assaulted by a Bangladeshi shop assistant and the epitome of populist hypocrisybyGian Domenico Caiazza14 SEP 26
the caseCorrado, the ever-present ‘grand old man’ who emerges behind LavitolaA glaring error in the transcript of a wiretap offers insight into the reflexes of slapdash investigative journalism. A short but intense story centred on the Ranucci case and Report.byGian Domenico Caiazza7 SEP 26
report templateThe lesson from the Ranucci-Lavitola saga that we have failed to learnIn this country, there is simply no way of establishing the (constitutional!) principle of the inviolability of private conversations. Thus, a valuable opportunity to de-politicise the dispute has been missedbyGian Domenico Caiazza31 AUG 26
The starting pointFalcone, this outsider to the anti-Mafia PolitburoFighting the Mafia without undermining the rule of law: the lesson that went unheeded even before CapacibyGian Domenico Caiazza24 AUG 26
the commentRanucci’s untenable “double victim” argumentIs the presenter of "Report" a ‘victim of the attack’? Only if you don’t believe the investigation. The rampant double standards that the Italian left puts on display whenever its stereotypes are called into questionbyGian Domenico Caiazza17 AUG 26
Mistakes to avoid repeatingThe lesson from the Tortora caseMiscarriages of justice, wrongful imprisonment: why we should have a day of remembrancebyGian Domenico Caiazza10 AUG 26
television justiceThe Ranucci method: facing up to one’s own mistakesThe ‘Report’-Lavitola scandal will at least serve to counter certain ‘investigative’ methods and the moralising with which people judge others’ dinners and social circlesbyGian Domenico Caiazza27 JUL 26
defence and revengeDon’t attack the rule of law: lessons from the Roggero caseAgainst a policy that panders to the worst impulses of social media and the country. Against hasty judgements on sentencing. Legal safeguards to ensure we don’t go too far when discussing security and the rule of law byGian Domenico Caiazza20 JUL 26