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Return to ‘Radio Nostalgia’: Twenty Years of ‘Anti-Violence’ Legislation in Italian Stadia

2016; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-94-6265-108-1_2

2215-003X

Arianna Sale,

Law in Society and Culture

This chapter aims to retrace the implementation of counter-hooliganism legislation in Italy over the past 20 years. The perception of threat connected with football disorder has led to the gradual introduction of 'emergency' measures, generally passed in the aftermath of tragic and extreme episodes of violence at football grounds. Most of these are preventive measures, discretionally used by police and aimed mainly at incapacitating the so-called 'potential troublemakers'. The chapter will focus on these measures, analysing them technically and highlighting the main issues in particular with respect to fans' civil rights.