In dealing with criminal law each country of the world has to confront several issues; among these certainly the most common are prison overcrowding, the difficulty in the recovery of debts arising from criminal offenses, and the problems created by the excessive duration of trials. But on closer inspection, these issues could be defined as “practical ones” that are not part of the difficult problems with which criminal lawyers around the world are dealing with nowadays. What is in front of us is a real crisis in criminal justice; a crisis that emerges especially on the side of rehabilitation, an issue the world pursues through the instrument of criminal proceedings and sanctions that follow. However, the results, as confirmed by many studies, 1 are largely contradictory and lacking.