Voluntary manslaughter between immigrants: authors and victims

Abstract

The paper analyzes the data concerning to the foreigners authors and victims of homicide, deriving from the EURES Report on the homicide in Italy 2013.
The analysis of these shows that the homicide in Italy has undergone a significant decrease in the last twenty years, disproving the xenophobic panicking that superficially and generally it tends to find the cause of the increase in crime among immigrants. In fact, since 2008 a progressive decrease there was with regard to the homicide of foreign known author: from 129 to 121. With reference to foreign victims in 2012 there is the lowest number since the last decade with 108 victims compared to 132 in 2011