This autoethnography discusses the arrest of a researcher engaged in the study of female street prostitution. The event becomes a way to reflect on the nature of the recently implemented measures for dealing with commercial sex in Italy, and the consolidation process of a new penal ethic based on prevention and new powers for the police forces. Within this framework, popular journalism and police activism become intertwined, creating a lethal combination that produces authoritarian scenarios in the government of security.
Prostitution and the New Penal Ethic in Italy: An Autoethnography of Repression
SAITTA, Pietro
2010-01-01
Abstract
This autoethnography discusses the arrest of a researcher engaged in the study of female street prostitution. The event becomes a way to reflect on the nature of the recently implemented measures for dealing with commercial sex in Italy, and the consolidation process of a new penal ethic based on prevention and new powers for the police forces. Within this framework, popular journalism and police activism become intertwined, creating a lethal combination that produces authoritarian scenarios in the government of security.File in questo prodotto:
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