The protection of the Rom in Swiss and Italian law

Abstract

Criminology, since long time has highlighted the preventive role of the education in the nomadic population; it is also true that it is hard to expect good results(considered as the variation of the criminal behaviours) in short times but this kind of support could surely help to reach positive outcomes in a longer lapse. On the other hand, the efforts to assure social-aid support to Rom people have had to run foul of their culture and to accept narrow social conventions. For these reasons the Authors believe that coercive impositions of different codes of behaviour could bring to a dangerous fight of cultures as much as serious xenophobic tendencies more than to an historically wished integration.