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Research about the predictors of resilience in the inmate population needs further explorations. This study examines the predictors of resilience in male inmates from Padua prison, before and after a 9-session neuropsychopedagogical intervention, entitled Envisioning the Future (EF), which took part in remote during Covid-19 pandemic. Using two linear regression models, a change in the factors determining inmates' resilience was found from before to after the intervention. In the pre-course group (n = 24), only low avoidance emerged as a statistically significant predictor of the level of resilience. In the post-course group (n = 24) low avoidance, flexibility, high levels of social support, and self-efficacy in managing positive emotions emerged as significant predictors of inmates' resilience. The results show that the constellation of factors predicting resilience in prisoners can be enriched by participating to neuropsychopedagogical interventions like EF, that increases individuals' resources in a challenging context such as prison.

The pandemic has implied a massive digitalization of psycho-pedagogical and educational interventions in different contexts, including the prison setting. Patrizio Paoletti Foundation (Assisi, Italy) has created Envisioning the Future (EF), a neuropsycho-pedagogical program aimed at increasing personal wellbeing, that was also remotely conducted among the inmates of the Padua (Italy) prison. The program was remotely implemented from May 2021 to June 2021, at the climax of the pandemic emergency, with the collaboration of the University of Padua (Italy) and of Padua prison (Italy). Through key neuroscientific findings and daily practices for wellbeing, EF aims at increasing inmates’ emotion regulation abilities. The responses of nine inmates to the Scales of Personal Self-efficacy in the Management of Negative and Positive Emotions, before and after EF, were paired and subjected to analysis of covariance, revealing an increase in the ability to manage positive emotions after EF. To date, EF is one of the first remote neuropsycho-pedagogical experiences in Italian prisons, able to positively impact on individual well-being.

يقدم هذا الكتاب إسهام مجموعة متميزة من العلماء الدوليين المعنيين بعلم جريمة المدان، ويستعرض الجذور التاريخية لهذا العلم وآفاقه المستقبلية، كما يناقش التحديات الحالية الي يواجهها السجناء مع الاعتراف بأن صوت المدان قد تم تجاهله في الأوساط الأكاديمية وممارسات العدالة الجنائية، ويعد الكتاب متفردًا من حيث الموضوع والمنهج والإضافات النظرية الي يقدمها، ومن حيث إن ترجمته تعد إضافة إلى التراث العربي في مجال دراسات علوم الجريمة.

The investigation of allosteric effects in biomolecular structures is of great current interest in diverse areas, from fundamental biological enquiry to drug discovery. Here we present ProteinLens, a user-friendly and interactive web application for the investigation of allosteric signalling based on atomistic graph-theoretical methods. Starting from the PDB file of a biomolecule (or a biomolecular complex) ProteinLens obtains an atomistic, energy-weighted graph description of the structure of the biomolecule, and subsequently provides a systematic analysis of allosteric signalling and communication across the structure using two computationally efficient methods: Markov Transients and bond-to-bond propensities. ProteinLens scores and ranks every bond and residue according to the speed and magnitude of the propagation of fluctuations emanating from any site of choice (e.g. the active site). The results are presented through statistical quantile scores visualised with interactive plots and adjustable 3D structure viewers, which can also be downloaded. ProteinLens thus allows the investigation of signalling in biomolecular structures of interest to aid the detection of allosteric sites and pathways. ProteinLens is implemented in Python/SQL and freely available to use at: www.proteinlens.io., Graphical Abstract Graphical abstractProteinLens constructs weighted atomistic graph representations of biomolecular structures and subsequently identifies allosteric sites and communication pathways, visualised on 3D structures. It further scores key residues and sites of interest.

This chapter reconstructs the first steps towards the development and adoption of a Convict Criminology (CC) approach inside the Italian social sciences. More specifically, it explores the structural and cultural factors that facilitated the origins of a CC in Italy and the factors that still obstruct its growth. In the context of the history of the meeting between the university and the prison, with particular reference to the pilot experiences of the first University Prison Poles (PUP), particular attention is paid to how Italy’s penitentiary system is organized, and to the widespread prison culture that interprets access to formal education as a sort of reward. The aim is to highlight the limits and the critical aspects of the different experiences in order to promote the conditions for the emergence within the Italian penitentiary of contexts useful for the development of a Convict Criminology. The chapter will be based on qualitative data taken from interviews with convicted students and academics involved in projects that are opening spaces for scientific confrontation with their students. In the last part, a proposal for some limited but necessary interventions to help develop and promote an Italian Convict Criminology are made.

The articles describes the life sentence as a pre-modern form of justice that denies the humanity of condemned people and reproduces a camouflaged death penalty. Retracing the beginning in Italy of a campaign called "Never say never", through which Italian lifers were calling for a death penalty, the Author argues that, as long as the humanization of punishment fails to reach the darkest corner of the penal system, it will be impossible to give radically new shape to the field of penality.

Most methodological issues you encounter when entering the field of prison as a researcher are common to other settings for research on institutionalised so-called ‘deviants’ (like hospitals, therapeutic communities and identifica- tion centres). The first problem is access to the field. As Goffman (2010 [1961]) argues, the world of inmates (as well as that of staff) is a world that is protected by physical and psychological barriers which make it particu- larly difficult for external subjects to access the field. It is no coincidence that the researchers who first studied prisons were in some way involved in the management of the institution (e.g. Clemmer, as a clinical sociolo- gist). Freedom of movement, in an environment which has been designated to limit freedom, and access to personal data, which are considered sensi- tive, are resources that are not easily made available to outsiders. Conversely, research as an inside observer involved in the running of the institution has considerable limitations and consequences, related to occupational pressures and moral dilemmas (cf. Mar quart 1986). A cultural variable can be added to this, that is to say the different countries’ recognition of the value of scientific research, criminological research in particular: some countries are interested in or at least willing to have their institutions undergo construc- tive assessment and constant monitoring; others are somewhat reluctant to open the doors to their prisons.

IL MANUALE OFFRE UNA PANORAMICA ANALITICA SUI CONTRIBUTI CRITICI DELLE DISCIPLINE DELLA SOCIOLOGIA DELLA DEVIANZA E DELLA CRIMINOLOGIA

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Muchas gracias por darme la oportunidad de participar de este recuerdo de Roberto Bergalli, para mí un maestro en la época del Instituto de Sociología Jurídica de Onati y luego amigo con motivo de sus visitas a Padova para enseñar en nuestro Máster en Criminología crítica.