Family homicides committed by migrants to Italy (1996-2009)

Abstract

The authors highlight the scarcity of attention paid to criminal and violent acts that occur within groups of minority immigrants and which can be traced to their precarious life conditions, in particular the upheaval of being uprooted and conflict deriving from having to fit into a very different culture from the one of origin; factors that inevitably reverberate within the dynamics of the family. Under this perspective, we studied all cases of family homicides committed by immigrants in Italy from 1 January 1996 to 5 May 2009. The data were collected by conducting a thorough search of the daily newspapers and were studied by monovariate, bivariate and trivariate analysis using the statistical software SPSS 15.0.