“Neighbourhood Watch” o “Neighbourhood Support”? La dichiarazione d’incostituzionalità della legge veneta sul controllo di vicinato e le strade percorribili in futuro

The essay, starting from a recent judgement of the Constitutional Court which annulled a regional law on the subject of “neighbourhood watch” for lack of legislative competence, investigates this phenomenon from the perspective of constitutional law, in the light of the experiences of other countries and taking into account the critical reflections put forward by scholars with regard to them, and also turning its attention to other phenomena in some way comparable. On the basis of the results of this investigation, we draw up some proposals about possible regulatory developments in this field (by the state legislature or, perhaps better, the regional legislatures), hopefully in the sense of a reconfiguration of this phenomenon in the direction, for example, of what in some countries is called “neighbourhood support”.