The article focuses on the peacetime military justice system in Liberal Italy. The first part adopts a quantitative approach and analyzes about 12.500 sentences passed by eight martial courts all over Italy, in order to provide an overview of the criminality in the military. Moreover, data are compared to those of other European armies in order to state whether repression in Italy is stronger than elsewhere. Mostly based on trial records and conscripts’ memoirs, the second part mixes quantitative and qualitative approach in order to ascertain who - and why - commits crimes, how courts react to indiscipline, and what criminality can suggest about the relationship between draft and nation-building in pre-WWI Italy.
Tra Marte ed Athena. La giustizia militare italiana in tempo di pace attraverso le carte dei tribunali territoriali (1861-1914)
Rovinello M
2011-01-01
Abstract
The article focuses on the peacetime military justice system in Liberal Italy. The first part adopts a quantitative approach and analyzes about 12.500 sentences passed by eight martial courts all over Italy, in order to provide an overview of the criminality in the military. Moreover, data are compared to those of other European armies in order to state whether repression in Italy is stronger than elsewhere. Mostly based on trial records and conscripts’ memoirs, the second part mixes quantitative and qualitative approach in order to ascertain who - and why - commits crimes, how courts react to indiscipline, and what criminality can suggest about the relationship between draft and nation-building in pre-WWI Italy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
