La violenza nei confronti delle donne: quale efficacia della “Legge sul femminicidio” e del “Codice Rosso”?

The patriarchal culture of our societies has always influenced the legal systems of different countries, bringing into the world of law prejudices and limitations, which have hindered the progress of women’s rights as well. The paper intends to analyse two initiatives adopted in the Italian legal landscape, Law No. 119 of 2013 and Law No. 69 of 2019, known respectively as the “Legge sul femmincidio” and the “Codice Rosso”, which, on the one hand, have intensified the punitive measures for certain crimes and,
on the other hand, have introduced new criminal offences –
some of which can be considered as sentinel crimes, which
can sometimes also result in feminicide. The paper therefore proposes to reason on the effectiveness of the two aforementioned normative acts, understood as the “capacity of norms to produce, in fact, the effects to which the norms are directed”, starting from the analysis of the most recent data on the subject.