Adolfo Ceretti is a researcher and practitioner in Milan, Italy. He received a law degree from the State University in Milan in 1981 and a PhD in Criminological and Forensic Psychiatry from the University of Moderna in 1991.

Adolfo has held research and teaching positions at the University of Urbino, State University in Milan, and Catholic University in Milan.  He served as a member of the third study commission for National Society of Society of Social Defense and Crime Prevention in 1982 and as a member of the Metropolitan Committee of Milan in 1996.

In 1993, Adolfo received the Dennis Carroll Prize at the 11th World Criminology Congress and the L’Orizzonte Artificiale. Problemi Epistemologici in Criminologia (The Artificial Horizon. Epistemological Problems in Criminology) Paolella Prize.

In 1998, Adolfo became the coordinator of the Victim-Offender Mediation Center in Milan. The Center provides mediation to juvenile offenders and their victims. In 2002, he was appointed to the Ministerial Commission on Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice.

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If “you” violate “my affections”, if you offend “my” life with a gesture that humiliates me, which damages “my” rights and more importantly “my” dignity, “my” sense of honour, and  which degrades me, it is through the practice of mediation that we can exit that logic which dictates “my” sufferance and the negation of “my” self-worth only in a call for compensation and, whereas a crime has been committed, penalty.

Adolfo Ceretti

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Leading Edge.  Adolfo continues his research in victim-offender mediation and restorative justice.

Reach Adolfo Ceretti  at  adolfo.ceretti@unimib.it

 

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