Claudia Pecorella PhD

Full Professor of Criminal Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Claudia Pecorella is a professor of Criminal law at the Italian University of Milano-Bicocca. Since many years she has been working on gender violence issues, both in the academic context and as part of training courses for lawyers and professionals. In this field, she realized an investigation on intimate partner violence, analyzing the cases prosecuted by the Criminal Court of Milan in a certain period.
At the same time, she is working with some younger researchers as volunteer at the legal-help desk of the Italian prison of Milano-Bollate, where every week they meet men and women serving their sentences (there are around 100 women on a total number of 1400 detained). To the theme of female detention, we dedicated empirical research few years ago, through the analysis of sentences and educators’ reports concerning women hosted in the Bollate prison, some of them being also interviewed by us. After this experience, Claudia decided to focus our attention on the broader theme of female criminality, investigating the jurisprudence of the Criminal Court of Milan in the years 2015-2017. 
Nowadays she is working on recidivism, which is very frequent in the prison population and is the cause of very long sentences, totally disproportionate and difficult to justify, considering the scarce resources employed in the rehabilitation of prisoners.

Massimiliano Dova

Assistant Professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Massimiliano Dova is an Assistant Professor of Criminal law at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been visiting researcher at Max Planck Institute of international and comparative criminal law of Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main. He has been member of national and international research projects on criminal sanctions and rehabilitation. His principal research interests are in some of the most relevant aspects of criminal law theory, such as mens rea (and in particular indirect intent), self-defense, the role of emotions in criminal law and the criminal sanctions system. In 2017, he published a book on alternative to detention. 

Ilaria Baldini

Member, Board of Presidents, CADMI, Italy

Graduated in Classical Literature at the University of Bologna (Italy), she holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University (Department of Italian) and a Master's in Systemic Counseling from the Panta Rei Center in Milan. She has been working as a volunteer reception operator at the oldest women's shelter in Milan (CADMI) for ten years and is a member of the Board of Directors.
She is actively involved in training courses at schools and companies, as well as in prevention activities for students, focusing on male violence against women. Additionally, she has translated several books on the topic of gender violence into Italian.