L'ideologia della Magistratura nei discorsi dei Procuratori Generali presso la Corte di Cassazione: 1948-2001

Culture and ideology, legal and judicial, organizational and professional, from a sociological-juridical and philosophical-juridical perspective constitute forms of knowledge that allow us to increase consensus and, no less importantly, to reduce dissent towards the subjects who they practice them. This work presents the results of a study aimed at describing, analyzing and interpreting the thinking of the Prosecutors General at the Court of Cassation around some themes and problems concerning the administration of justice in Italy in light not only of the purposes and interests pursued by them, of the variables (personal, cultural, ideological, location or professional and political-institutional) that appear most capable of influencing it, but also of the concrete effects that it is able to produce in the social and legal-judicial reality. The empirical research uses qualitative documentary analysis as a data collection technique and has as its object the speeches for the inauguration of the judicial year, written and delivered by the Attorneys General at the Court of Cassation from 1948 to 2001. An attempt was made to verify, on the basis of the position taken by the magistrates who took turns in the same judicial positions, the existence of uniformity and homogeneity in their way of thinking, communicating and acting at an organizational level, as well as in the possible emergence of costs in terms of ineffectiveness and inefficiency of the judicial apparatus, transferred to collective and individual subjects who in various capacities come into contact with it: these are aspects that can be investigated through empirical research, including qualitative, of which Renato Treves and Vincenzo Tomeo, great masters, were tireless supporters