Adolfo Ceretti

Adolfo Ceretti teaches Criminology at the University of Milan-Bicocca, teaches Offender-Victim Mediation at the University of Milan-Bicocca, and is the scientific coordinator of the Criminal Mediation Office in Milan. He is the Secretary General of the National Center for Prevention and Social Defense. In 2021, he was appointed by the Minister of Justice Marta Cartabia as Coordinator of the Working Group for the development of legislative decree drafts containing the organic regulation of restorative justice. His publications include: "Violent Cosmologies," co-authored with Lorenzo Natali (Raffaello Cortina, 2009) and "Beyond Fear," co-authored with Roberto Cornelli (Feltrinelli, 2013). The Devil Caresses My Hair. Memoirs of a Criminologist (with Niccolò Nisivoccia, Il Saggiatore, 2020); together with Marta Cartabia, he co-authored "Another Story Begins Here. Justice as Recomposition" (Bompiani, 2020); In 2022, he published I Wanted to Kill Her. For a Criminology of the Encounter (with Lorenzo Natali and Raffaello Cortina).