| Sumario: | This book was created following an opportunity that was given to us by a banking foundation. [...] The client's interest was to verify, after 10 years of activity, the effectiveness of the actions undertaken [in a social reintegration project] and the possible future developments of the project. An element of interest, perhaps the main one, was to understand what the paths of the project's users were, especially in terms of relapse into crime. From there was born the idea of carrying out an empirical research that operated both quantitatively and qualitatively. [...] As sometimes happens, however, during the course of the research we soon realized that the comparison with the people we were interviewing was giving us much more than what was requested by the client. [...] What we were collecting with the interviews was a cross-section of our age and of the place that it reserves for social marginality. From the point of view of exhibition, the text follows the various phases of the criminalization process, from the experiences prior to the prison, up to the time of prison, to then enter the phase following the sentence. After an initial introductory chapter on the description of how the research was born, of how it was carried out and of the presentation of the sample involved, in the second chapter the study is inserted in the framework of the recent evolutions of the penal control paradigms. In the third chapter we therefore propose a picture of the social status of the users of the project and of work experiences up until the moment of imprisonment. In the fourth chapter we reflect on the prison and on the impact of the prison on the life course of the condemned to then arrive, in the fifth chapter, to narrate the meeting between the former prisoner and the agencies responsible for the re-socialization of the condemned. In the sixth chapter, we deal with the issue of recidivism and the return to society of the protagonists to ask ourselves about the relationship between a substantially low recurrence rate and a current condition, in many cases, of extreme poverty. Finally, in the last chapter we propose a more general reflection on the continuity of the marginalization process which sees as protagonists, both the agencies of criminal control and the services formally responsible for the social inclusion of the most disadvantaged categories.
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