{"id":107350,"date":"2019-08-25T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/25\/the-philosophical-crime-writer-you-must-have-empathy-even-for-the-worst-criminals\/"},"modified":"2019-08-25T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T22:00:53","slug":"the-philosophical-crime-writer-you-must-have-empathy-even-for-the-worst-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107350","title":{"rendered":"The philosophical crime writer: &#039;You must have empathy, even for the worst criminals&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former mafia prosecutor Gianrico Carofiglio writes books to show the real Italy, not the one populated by the strutting spiv-suited mafiosi of the moviesThere was a time when it wouldn\u2019t be safe to be sitting at a table with Gianrico Carofiglio. A time when he would not be out in the open like this. A time when, for five years, he travelled by armoured car, escorted by many heavily armed bodyguards. When his every move was planned with military precision.There\u2019s not a lot of personal freedom when you are an anti-mafia judge. In some ways Carofiglio was as caged as the men he was putting into prison. There were plots against him, one involving a bazooka. There was the haunting precedent of the murders of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino \u2013 two judges who had fought the Sicilian mafia and were killed when their cars were blown up in 1992. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2019\/aug\/25\/the-philosophical-writer-you-must-have-empathy-even-for-the-worst-criminals\" target=\"_blank\">The philosophical crime writer: &#039;You must have empathy, even for the worst criminals&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former mafia prosecutor Gianrico Carofiglio writes books to show the real Italy, not the one populated by the strutting spiv-suited mafiosi of the moviesThere was a time when it wouldn\u2019t be safe to be sitting at a table with Gianrico Carofiglio. A time when he would not be out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}