Mattia Pinto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4459970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattia Pinto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattia |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinto |
| SIGNATURE | PINTO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7537-3942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anti-torture and the politics of carceral fatalism
Anti-torture advocates have long confronted the realities of imprisonment and are acutely aware of its limits. Yet they remain caught between a commitment to punitive justice – demanding that perpetrators of torture face incarceration – and a sustained critique of the prison's systemic failures. Although they recognise that penitentiary institutions routinely violate the very human rights they are meant to uphold, advocates continue to rely on im…
Challenging punishment as the justice norm in the face of ongoing atrocities
International criminal law constitutes the culmination of the ‘anti-impunity agenda’ within international law, policy, and practice. This agenda, often advanced under the rallying cry of ‘never again’ – a pledge to never let atrocities like those of the Second World War happen again to anyone – is driven by the conviction that criminal sanctions are essential for fulfilling this promise and conveying collective condemnation of such horrors. This …
Border penality as antagonistic politics
This article examines the socio-political implications of using criminal law to address migration issues in Italy. It delves into the polarised political debate characterised by crimmigration, on the one hand, and calls to criminalise border violence to protect migrants, on the other hand. It argues that both uses of penality reflect and foster penal antagonism, whereby both sides of the debate seek to impose their views using punishment. Penal a…
Silvana Tapia Tapia
Coercive Human Rights and the Forgotten History of the Council of Europe's Report on Decriminalisation
What if the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), instead of developing a ‘coercive human rights doctrine’ concerning state duties to criminalise serious human rights violations, had focused on decriminalisation? The ECtHR has never developed a coherent case law on protecting human rights by removing, rather than adding, criminal regulation. This article returns to a largely forgotten moment in 1980, when the Council of Europe adopted a Report …
Discursive alignment of trafficking, rights and crime control
Since the 1990s, human trafficking has become the battleground for competing discourses on human rights and penality. While rights solutions are generally presented as in opposition to crime-control measures, in the context of anti-trafficking interventions, rights-based initiatives and criminal governance are often linked together both discursively and in practice. Drawing on the findings of Discourse Analysis of 120 texts about trafficking, thi…
Border penality as antagonistic politics
This article examines the socio-political implications of using criminal law to address migration issues in Italy. It delves into the polarised political debate characterised by crimmigration, on the one hand, and calls to criminalise border violence to protect migrants, on the other hand. It argues that both uses of penality reflect and foster penal antagonism, whereby both sides of the debate seek to impose their views using punishment. Penal a…
Discursive alignment of trafficking, rights and crime control
Since the 1990s, human trafficking has become the battleground for competing discourses on human rights and penality. While rights solutions are generally presented as in opposition to crime-control measures, in the context of anti-trafficking interventions, rights-based initiatives and criminal governance are often linked together both discursively and in practice. Drawing on the findings of Discourse Analysis of 120 texts about trafficking, thi…
Discursive alignment of trafficking, rights and crime control
Since the 1990s, human trafficking has become the battleground for competing discourses on human rights and penality. While rights solutions are generally presented as in opposition to crime-control measures, in the context of anti-trafficking interventions, rights-based initiatives and criminal governance are often linked together both discursively and in practice. Drawing on the findings of Discourse Analysis of 120 texts about trafficking, thi…
Silvana Tapia Tapia
Coercive Human Rights and the Forgotten History of the Council of Europe's Report on Decriminalisation
What if the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), instead of developing a ‘coercive human rights doctrine’ concerning state duties to criminalise serious human rights violations, had focused on decriminalisation? The ECtHR has never developed a coherent case law on protecting human rights by removing, rather than adding, criminal regulation. This article returns to a largely forgotten moment in 1980, when the Council of Europe adopted a Report …
Border penality as antagonistic politics
This article examines the socio-political implications of using criminal law to address migration issues in Italy. It delves into the polarised political debate characterised by crimmigration, on the one hand, and calls to criminalise border violence to protect migrants, on the other hand. It argues that both uses of penality reflect and foster penal antagonism, whereby both sides of the debate seek to impose their views using punishment. Penal a…
Challenging punishment as the justice norm in the face of ongoing atrocities
International criminal law constitutes the culmination of the ‘anti-impunity agenda’ within international law, policy, and practice. This agenda, often advanced under the rallying cry of ‘never again’ – a pledge to never let atrocities like those of the Second World War happen again to anyone – is driven by the conviction that criminal sanctions are essential for fulfilling this promise and conveying collective condemnation of such horrors. This …
Anti-torture and the politics of carceral fatalism
Anti-torture advocates have long confronted the realities of imprisonment and are acutely aware of its limits. Yet they remain caught between a commitment to punitive justice – demanding that perpetrators of torture face incarceration – and a sustained critique of the prison's systemic failures. Although they recognise that penitentiary institutions routinely violate the very human rights they are meant to uphold, advocates continue to rely on im…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminal justice (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (2 works) · International Law and Human Rights (2 works)