“La donna di fronte alla legge penale”. Il problema dell’imputabilità della donna tra Otto e Novecento

During the post-unification period the issue concerning the criminal responsibility of women involved an important part of the italian criminal doctrine: it is the one related to the analysis of women’s legal status an overall coherently joined up with the private law sector. This is why the debate evolved between the institution of the Pisanelli Code (1865) and the proclamation of the Criminal Code of 1889. Although important, it did not remain confined to the relationship between crime and punishment which was claimed by the needs of modernisation of both State and society. It is interesting to observe that both the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari were not kept outside of that debate.