https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/issue/feedRASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIA2024-02-06T09:45:49+00:00Prof. Roberto Catanesiroberto.catanesi@uniba.itOpen Journal Systems<p>La <em>Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia</em> è, sin dal 1970, l’organo ufficiale della Società Italiana di Criminologia<a href="https://www.criminologiaitaliana.it">(https://www.criminologiaitaliana.it/)</a>. Fondata dal Professor Giacomo Canepa, rappresenta uno dei più antichi e qualificati fogli di approfondimento scientifico su temi criminologici nel nostro Paese. La rivista pubblica studi e risultati di ricerche di Criminologia Clinica, Psicologia e Psichiatria forense, Sociologia della devianza, Politica criminale. Gli articoli sono selezionati da revisori anonimi. La Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia pubblica di preferenza articoli di ricerca ma accetta volentieri review di letteratura, case report di particolare interesse, note a sentenza, analisi su fenomeni criminali, riflessioni su teorie applicabili agli studi sulla criminalità.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Format:</strong> Stampa e versione elettronica</p> <p><strong>ISSN:</strong> (Online) 2240-8053</p> <p><strong>ISSN:</strong> (Printed) 1121-1717</p> <p><strong>Frequenza:</strong> 4 numeri all'anno</p> <p><strong>Anno d'inizio:</strong> 1970</p> <p><strong>Tipi di contenuti:</strong> Accademici/Esperti</p> <p><strong>Lingua:</strong> italiano e inglese</p>https://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7018Percorsi diagnostico-terapeutico-riabilitativi e assistenziali multidisciplinari individualizzati in REMS2024-02-06T08:27:42+00:00Livia Sannaweb@pensamultimedia.itEdi Da Rugna web@pensamultimedia.itArtur Obexer web@pensamultimedia.itSilvia Bridiweb@pensamultimedia.itMartina Degasperi web@pensamultimedia.itAndreas Concaweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>The Residence for the Execution of Safety Measures (RESM) is a psychiatric-forensic health facility housing who has been found not criminally responsible for a violent crime because of a mental illness, but also declared dangerous so that the treatment and rehabilitation in the community-based mental system are not possible. Given the dual mission of the facility of reducing social danger while supporting community integration, the authors suggest creating user-centered diagnostic-therapeutic care programs, with both rehabilitative and forensic nature, carried out by multidisciplinary teams who work in an integrated and flexible way in a three-phase project, with the purpose for the patient to take responsibility and to develop alternative strategies to violence.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7019Application of Hayward and Young's Cultural Criminology Framework to the Film, Joker2024-02-06T08:36:44+00:00Hamidreza Danesh Nari web@pensamultimedia.itSeyyed Hossein Hosseini web@pensamultimedia.itElnaz Nesari Javanweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>This article explores the film, Joker according to Hayward and Young’s five motifs of cultural criminology by thematic analysis. Based on signs, symbols and significations, we analyze how structural and emotional variables affect on crime. In the film, the Joker, as a villainous character, kills seven people as part of his transgressive comedy act. Feelings such as anger and excitement in the Joker’s character represent a lens of adrenaline and psychological violence to challenges the rational choice. In the final shots, killing the therapist and bloody footprints confirms the Joker’s anarchic jester as an attentive gaze. Due to crisis of rats as a symbol of inequality, the Gotham Carnival was created. This political carnival not only shows the under life of city, but also represents the lower class riot, violent clowns and systemic violence. While Joker is introduced as a superhero and symbol of this carnival, the heroism project of Joker is a dangerous knowledge. However, transition from fictional events to real life events illustrates that Jihadi terrorist activities are consistent with Hayward and Young’s five motifs of cultural criminology.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7020Prevenire il pericolo? I no vax nei social2024-02-06T09:07:53+00:00Isabella Merzagoraweb@pensamultimedia.itPaolo Bailoweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>As criminology is also focused on prevention, it begs the question of whether thoughts that could lead to harmful consequences are within its jurisdiction and if they can be restricted as a result. This query is prompted by an analysis of 100 social media posts by individuals who oppose the Covid-19 vaccine. Non-vaccination opinions were categorized based on expressions of freedom, health concern, psudo-scientific opinions, and conspiracy beliefs. Additionally, the views of vaccine proponents who utilized scientific reasoning were examined. The debate centers around the conflict between freedom of thought expression and the potential danger of expressed opinions. Two principles collide: the right to freedom of thought expression protected by the Constitution's Article 21 and the safeguarding of public interests as possible limitations to freedom of speech.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7021L’importanza della scuola come fattore di protezione rispetto ai comportamenti devianti e alla vittimizzazione dei giovani adolescenti in Italia: i risultati dell’International Self Report Delinquency Study-3 (ISRD-3) 2024-02-06T09:13:40+00:00Barbara Gualcoweb@pensamultimedia.itVirginia Bartoliniweb@pensamultimedia.itRegina Rensiweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>Objective: The aim of this study is to observe whether the pleasure of the chosen school and having a favorite teacher are protective factors with respect to the quality of the relationship with one's parents, juvenile deviance, and victimization. Methods: The study analyzes the data collected by a questionnaire “ISRD- 3”, administered to an Italian sample of 3508 young students from 7th to 9th grade. The students live in Brescia, Florence, Genoa, Lecce, Messina, Naples, Siena, and Milan. Specifically, the authors analyze the association among the answers about the relationship with parents, the importance of school, and self-reported delinquency behaviors concerning the presence of the favorite teacher. Results: The pleasure of the chosen school, the lack of a favorite teacher in the event of a transfer, and the fact that what the pupil's favorite teacher thinks is important are protective factors with respect to the commission of deviant acts, respect to the use of drugs, especially the so-called "Soft drugs" (ecstasy, LSD, speed, amphetamines) and "hard drugs" (heroin, cocaine, crack). Those who like their chosen school and have a favorite teacher have a better rela-tionship with their parents, they feel emotionally supported by them to a greater extent than their peers who do not like the chosen school and do not have a favorite teacher. There is no significant relevance with regard to victimi-zation except for cyberbullying: those who have a favorite teacher who misses them in case of transfer and care about their opinion appear to be more victims of cyberbullying. Conclusions: Having a favorite teacher, the opinion of which is important for the pupil constitutes a protective factor against any deviant paths that the pupil may undertake and facilitates relations with parents.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7022Rorschach test in murderers: A systematic review of the literature 1946-2021 II – Descriptive, not controlled group studies2024-02-06T09:21:04+00:00Salvatore Zizolfiweb@pensamultimedia.itIgnazio Grattaglianoweb@pensamultimedia.itDaniele Zizolfiweb@pensamultimedia.itStefania Zecca web@pensamultimedia.itPasqua Loconsoleweb@pensamultimedia.itLucia Prudenteweb@pensamultimedia.itAntonia Valerio web@pensamultimedia.itRoberto Catanesiweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>A total of 91 studies on Rorschach test in murderers from 1946 to 2021, written in English (62), French (13), Italian (12) or other languages (N = 4; Portuguese, Spanish and German) were reviewed, searched from the main databases (PubMed, Medline Complete, Embase, PsycINFO, PsycNET, PEPWeb, Co-chrane, Gallica and Perseus) and other relevant sources (Google scholar; books and journals in the Rorschach field; Rorschach bibliographies; Buros MMY Mental Measurement Yearbooks), as well as from researcher networks (academia.edu, researchgate.net) and from the list of references of identi-fied articles. Literature searching, study selection, screening and data extraction were carried out in-dependently and concordantly by two authors. All the papers containing data on the Rorschach test in murderers were included, but only the contributions whose full text pdf was available were consi-dered. Five types of studies were identified: 1) Literature reviews (N = 4); 2) Single case studies (N = 31); 3) Descriptive studies on murderer samples without controls (N = 20) or compared with normative data (N = 2); 4) Case-Control groups comparative studies (N = 28); 5) Miscellanea (N = 6). All the studies have been summarized in detail, so that they almost always replace a direct reading. The present paper concerns descriptive studies on murderer samples without controls (N = 20) or compared with nor-mative data (N = 2). The results are extensively discussed, focusing on forensic implications and indi-cations for future research.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7023Psychological aspects in human trafficking for sexual exploitation: a systematic review2024-02-06T09:32:55+00:00Nubia Hernández-Flórez web@pensamultimedia.itYildret Rodríguez-Ávilaweb@pensamultimedia.itAlvaro Enrique Lhoeste Charrisweb@pensamultimedia.itJosé Darío Argüello Ruedweb@pensamultimedia.itVictoria E. González Marteloweb@pensamultimedia.itMaria Jose Orozco Santandeweb@pensamultimedia.itIsneila Martinez Gomezweb@pensamultimedia.itNatalia Monterroza Badranweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>This article is a systematic review of the crime of trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation, relating the psychological aspects of the victims and the traumas and disorders caused to mental health with the violation of human rights. The methodology followed the Prisma statement, with scientific articles deposited in three databases: Pubmed, Web of Science (WoS), and Springer; Three search equations were crossed with their Booleans under inclusion and exclusion criteria. As a result of the screening, 27 documents were obtained to conclude that the crime of human trafficking qualifies as a crime against humanity given the psychological consequences of the victims and the difficulty of reintegration, but also, the need to generate inter-country actions to confront criminal gangs.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7024Psychopathy subtypes: etiology, characteristics and the importance to identifying variants2024-02-06T09:38:22+00:00Rosario Barrancoweb@pensamultimedia.itBrenda Briascoweb@pensamultimedia.itOriana Binik Monika Pothorskiweb@pensamultimedia.itAlfredo Verde web@pensamultimedia.itGabriele Roccaweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>Traditionally psychopathy is described as a personality disorder characterised by lack of empathy and guilt, shallow affect, manipulation of other people and premeditated and violent antisocial behaviour. The current study analyses the major aspects of psychopathy and provide an overview of most in-fluential existing theories on psychopathy subtypes and their distinguishing features. In this research, we summarize the main traits that allow to differentiate the two variants of psychopathy. We analyse the distinct etiological processes that cause those traits through genetic and environmental processes and the divergences that have emerged about alcohol and substance abuse. Finally, we describe the damage of not differentiating those two variants, specifically, emphasizing that treatment should be different for each variant.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIAhttps://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/ric/article/view/7025Manipolazione mentale e modelli di persuasione2024-02-06T09:45:49+00:00Nunzio Di Nunnoweb@pensamultimedia.itLia Parenteweb@pensamultimedia.itFulvio Carabellese web@pensamultimedia.itLuigi Corvagliaweb@pensamultimedia.it<p>The article examines the controversy over mental manipulation by showing that the reasons for disagreement lie in unclear conceptualization. The literature on mental manipulation is often tainted by the specious use of the metaphor of "brainwashing." This is sometimes used as a pretext to emphasize the irrationality of manipulation and its location outside the scientific realm. The purpose of this article is to show how the findings of experimental psychology and behavioral economics lead to the identification of a process of thought and behavior change that can be described in scientific terms. The case described faithfully traces the process of persuasion described in the text, which takes place through the selection of the most likely subjects in sequential and orderly steps, and concretely affects the final recruits in particular, who engage in indoctrination in a psychological and relational context that's now profoundly altered. Classical experiments and quasi experimental are quite capable of explaining the gradual induction of counterproductive decisions in a context that makes them rational for those who make them. The article shows that thought manipulation isn't a magical, supernatural phenomenon, but a persuasion process based on a set of widely studied basic principles of social psychology. Thus, a psychosocial reading is proposed that allows the criminological sciences to reintroduce into their field of study a phenomenon that had escaped them due to sociological simplifications and ideological issues that have nothing to do with the scientific debate.</p>2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIA