Purpose

This paper looks at police brutalities in Italy. In particular, the discussion focusses on the case of the death of Riccardo Magherini, who was stopped by the Corpo dei Carabinieri (CC), a branch of the Italian Army operating as a police force, on the 3rd of March 2014. The paper focusses on the way the police agents involved in the Magherini trial, both witnesses and defendants, made sense of the case. Their answers to the questions put to them by case lawyers or judges during the first trial in February 2016 will be closely examined.

Design/methodology/approach

Discussion of the case will rely on material drawn from court files. The Carabinieris internal reports on the incident and the court transcription of the agents questioning will form the basis for an ethnographic analysis of the case. The author will then use the case analysis as the starting point for a broader discussion on police culture. While ethnography generally consists of direct on-the-ground participant observation Geertz 1992, the author’s methodology of using legal transcripts and reports can nevertheless be considered ethnographical. .

Findings

Discussion will consider the importance of an ethical element to the internal culture of the Italian police forces which influences their street practice. Italian police have an ethical approach in that they believe their role is to be able separate good from bad and protect society from the bad. Moreover they have operated within a context of impunity which has produced over time a critical threshold according to which specific individuals and groups deemed as dangerous classes are considered outside the realm of normal civilised society and as such can be treated differently in contemporary Italy.

Originality/value

The originality of this paper relates to two distinct elements. The first one concerns the context analysed, as the peculiarities of the Italian police are hardly known to the larger international public. The second aspect relates to the specificity of a case. Magherini was not a marginal person, he was an Italian citizen, but he suffered from a brutality that caused his death. The dynamics of this outcome will be closely analysed.

中文翻译：

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致命的对话：意大利的马盖里尼案和警察暴行

目的

本文着眼于意大利警察的暴行。特别是，讨论集中在 2014 年 3 月 3 日被意大利军队的一个分支宪兵队 (CC) 拦截的 Riccardo Magherini 死亡案。在参与 Magherini 审判的警务人员（包括证人和被告）的过程中，他们理解了此案。他们对案件律师或法官在 2016 年 2 月一审期间向他们提出的问题的回答将受到仔细审查。

设计/方法/方法

对案件的讨论将依赖于法庭文件中的材料。Carabinieris 关于事件的内部报告和特工提问的法庭记录将构成对案件进行人种学分析的基础。然后，作者将以案例分析为起点，对警察文化进行更广泛的讨论。虽然民族志通常包括直接的实地参与者观察 Geertz 1992，但作者使用法律记录和报告的方法仍然可以被认为是民族志的。.

发现

讨论将考虑道德元素对意大利警察部队内部文化的重要性，这会影响他们的街头行为。意大利警察有一种道德方法，他们相信他们的职责是能够区分好坏并保护社会免受坏事的影响。此外，他们在有罪不罚的情况下运作，随着时间的推移产生了一个关键门槛，根据该门槛，被视为危险阶级的特定个人和群体被视为正常文明社会范围之外，因此在当代意大利可以区别对待。

原创性/价值

本文的独创性与两个不同的元素有关。第一个涉及所分析的背景，因为意大利警察的特殊性几乎不为广大国际公众所知。第二个方面涉及案件的特殊性。马盖里尼不是一个边缘人，他是意大利公民，但他遭受了导致他死亡的暴行。将密切分析这一结果的动态。