Abstract

[Guilt, justice and the eyes of the walls. Notes of a criminal lawyer walking the streets of the city] The hypothesis of a criminal law of places is assessed under three different profiles and tested on the city case. Taking cues from architectural elements, particularly those allowing or precluding sight, the path proposes a survey of different modes of justice as a gaze and roles of ruled spaces in options of observance, transgression, separation, inclusion, punishment, reconciliation. The possibility is suggested of a shared representation of places of reconciliation, unitively narrated from multiple observation points of urban histories and geographies. Foremost, the need emerges to begin the walk, according to justice, under the towers, along the windows and even beyond contemporary city gates, for an inevitable encounter with the other, whose gaze is only departure and trail sign for recognition.