Towards a "narrow" path of recipients of criminal sanctions through the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

Abstract: The present paper aims to investigate, through the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the nature of sanctions, starting from the Engel criteria, that are formulated during the years, forming different paths, therefore, their recipients continue to be always people who are convicted with various ways and crimes at domestic level. The paths are different for a common formal qualification regarding the erga omnes, since the sanctions as objectives are not the same for the relative justice. The dissenting opinions of the judges have laid the foundations to put our investigation to a much more in-depth path of a penal culture that behind every appearance judges sees the sanctions of each case with a way to itself.