Publications

Authors:

VELO DALBRENTA, Daniele

Title:

Crimini predicibili? L’eclissi del diritto penale moderno in Minority Report di Steven Spielberg

Year:

2018

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Italiano

Format:

Elettronico

Book Title:

STUDIES ON ARGUMENTATION & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY / 3 MULTIMODAL ARGUMENTATION, PLURALISM AND IMAGES IN LAW

Publisher:

Università degli Studi di Trento - Facoltà di Giurisprudenza

ISBN:

978-88-8443-818-8

Page numbers:

509-541

Keyword:

Predictive policing - Punishment - Free Will - Determinism

Short description of contents:

Remotely inspired by Philip K. Dick's short story of the same name, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report seems to be a film that, despite a certain weakness under some logic and narrative aspects, successfully attempts to unveil a dystopia in reality – and vice versa. Taking advantage of an adequate screenplay and futuristic consultations (!), the director uses the literary starting point to state again, in the current time, the set of problems about the (not) predictability of criminal conduct, letting us distinguish experience concreteness beyond the dusk of modern theoretical dichotomy determinism/free will. What glimpsed in Dick’s brief story, except for the almost dreamlike dark ending, in the tempered Spielberg's remake appears to exceed dystopic fiction and facing – against the light – the hidden dangers of the new police methodology of the XXI century: predictive policing. A methodology clearly indebted to the divisive penal positivism, but renovated in its premises, and promises, by info-technological advances that characterize contemporary society.

Product ID:

110854

Handle IRIS:

11562/1001843

Last Modified:

October 19, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

VELO DALBRENTA, Daniele, Crimini predicibili? L’eclissi del diritto penale moderno in Minority Report di Steven Spielberg STUDIES ON ARGUMENTATION & LEGAL PHILOSOPHY / 3 MULTIMODAL ARGUMENTATION, PLURALISM AND IMAGES IN LAW , Università degli Studi di Trento - Facoltà di Giurisprudenza , 2018 , pp. 509-541

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