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Data on femicides: Where do we stand?
No full textAccessibility and consistency of femicide data have advanced in the last decade, but substantial data deficiencies persist that hinder tracking of trends over time
Violenza al femminile: l’altra faccia della medaglia
No full textA review of the literature on women with violent behavior is presented. Epide- milogic studies highlight an important gap between the two sexes that remains despite some signs of change in recent decades. Besides the examination of the literature two specific categories of violent behavior are presented that see the woman protagonsta: the domestic violence and the infanticide / figlicidio and with the contribution of some clin- ical cases, the modality of declination of the violent behavior of the woman is described
The critical issue of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
No full textSynopsis Although bride kidnapping was criminalized in the early 2000s in Kyrgyzstan, critical efforts are needed to enforce the law and empower women
[The psychiatrization and unpredictability of interpersonal violent behavior]
No full textThe relationship between mental illness and violent behavior is a complex phenomenon. Scientific literature indicates that the presence of a mental disorder, even severe, is not sufficient, alone, to predict or motivate violent behavior, which seems to be more associated with other intermediate variables. The phenomenon of psychiatrization of violent behavior can be defined, from a psychiatric-forensic point of view, as the prejudicial and erroneous attribution to mental illness as a causal factor in relation to violent behavior. This phenomenon has consequences in psychiatric clinical practice, but also at the level of social stigmatization, management of organizational and economic resources, and the judicial system. In this paper, clinical criticalities related to the psychiatrization of violent behavior will be analyzed, including the need to differentiate clinical etiology and legal causality, predictability and avoidability, protective clinical factors and clinical risk factors, the limits of categorical psychiatric diagnosis, the need for specific victimological information, the criticalities of pharmacotherapy. Some forensic criticalities will also be analyzed, including errors in clinical and forensic methodology (psychiatrization of the symptom, prejudicial contamination, diagnostic overshadowing, legal causalization of protective and risk factors, the use of categorical diagnosis in the forensic field, the psychiatrization of non-pathological human experiences, the criminalization of the subject with mental disorder). In conclusion, it is highlighted that an individual can have a psychic disorder, even severe, but this disorder is not necessarily in a causal relationship with violent behavior. The lack of a causal relationship makes predictability of violent behavior difficult, even impossible depending on the case, both in the general population and in individuals with psychiatric disorders
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