Statute of Limitations, Reasonable Length of the Trial and Protection of Legal Interests Through the Criminal Law For at least three decades the statute of limitations has been at the centre of the debate on criminal justice in Italy. This can be explained, in the international context, by considering how in Italy, unlike in most foreign countries, the statute of limitations of the crime can occur during the criminal trial. High crime statute of limitations rates, with criminal proceedings in progress, are a symptom of an ineffective and inefficient criminal justice system. The author criticizes the thesis, widely supported in the current debate, that the statute of limitations would be a remedy to the unreasonable length of the trial – another evil of the Italian system – and proposes instead to separate the two problems. A trial of reasonable length, in fact, reduces the rates of statute of limitations of the crime and allows a more effective protection of legal interests, included the fundamental rights.
SOMMARIO: 1. Tre decenni di dibattito sulla prescrizione del reato: da «cancro» del sistema penale a preteso rimedio contro l’irragionevole durata del processo. – 2. Le rationes della prescrizione del reato e il problematico rapporto con il processo. – 3. Beni giuridici e prescrizione del reato: una prospettiva proficua. - 4. Prescrizione del reato e ineffettività del diritto penale. – 5. Prescrizione del reato e inefficienza del processo penale. – 6. Conclusione: separare le strade della prescrizione e del processo penale, per la tutela effettiva di beni giuridici, diritti fondamentali e diritti umani.
Prescrizione del reato, ragionevole durata del processo e tutela dei beni giuridici / G.L. Gatta. - In: DIRITTI UMANI E DIRITTO INTERNAZIONALE. - ISSN 1971-7105. - 14:2(2020 Aug), pp. 449-460. [10.12829/97963]
Prescrizione del reato, ragionevole durata del processo e tutela dei beni giuridici
G.L. Gatta
2020
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Statute of Limitations, Reasonable Length of the Trial and Protection of Legal Interests Through the Criminal Law For at least three decades the statute of limitations has been at the centre of the debate on criminal justice in Italy. This can be explained, in the international context, by considering how in Italy, unlike in most foreign countries, the statute of limitations of the crime can occur during the criminal trial. High crime statute of limitations rates, with criminal proceedings in progress, are a symptom of an ineffective and inefficient criminal justice system. The author criticizes the thesis, widely supported in the current debate, that the statute of limitations would be a remedy to the unreasonable length of the trial – another evil of the Italian system – and proposes instead to separate the two problems. A trial of reasonable length, in fact, reduces the rates of statute of limitations of the crime and allows a more effective protection of legal interests, included the fundamental rights.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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