Search results for "Criminal"

Mafia and psychopathy

2014

Background In popular culture, Mafia members are often portrayed as ruthless, callous and remorseless, but there is no empirical research on their personality traits. Aims The goal of this research was to examine levels of psychopathic traits among Mafia members who have been convicted of a criminal offence. Methods The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) rated 30 Italian adult male prisoners who had been convicted for Mafia-related crimes (86% resident in one 6-month period) and 39 next adjacent convicted men who were not enrolled in any criminal organisation. Results Mafia members obtained lower PCL-R total scores, interpersonal and affective (PCL-R factor 1) scores and lifestyle scores…

Official and Self-Reported Childhood Abuse and Adult Crime of Young Offenders

2004

This study sought to predict adult criminal behavior in a sample of 89 young male prison inmates using self-reported and official data on childhood maltreatment (gathered from interviews and files) and criminality (collected using a 33-item Self-Reported Criminality Scale and official criminal records). Overall, the offenders convicted of violent versus nonviolent crimes did not differ in self-reported criminality. File-based neglect was predictive of self-reported property offenses, and self-reported psychological abuse predicted self-reported vandalism. Official criminal record data was not predicted by self-reported or file-based childhood maltreatment. The findings provided evidence of…

Pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders in German outpatient treatment centers

2018

In Germany, depending on a sexual offender's culpability and the severity of the offence, he/she can be placed either in the forensic-psychiatric or the correctional system. Numbers related to the pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders for the correctional system are missing so far. In sexual offenders, the pharmacological treatment of paraphilic disorders is of special importance. The present study aimed at assessing the prevalence of pharmacological sexual offender treatment in German outpatient treatment centers supervising mainly clients from the correctional sector. An online questionnaire was sent to 112 outpatient treatment centers and 21 provided data relevant for the present…

Legal aspects of forensic DNA analysis in Germany

1997

DNA analysis may be carried out in cases of civil law (e.g., in cases of disputed paternity) as well as of criminal law (e.g., a case of murder). This overview will concentrate on DNA analysis in the context of criminal law. DNA typing of forensic stain samples is generally carried out in laboratories of the Police and of University Institutes of Legal Medicine. The police laboratories are usually part of the State Criminal Offices (Landeskriminalamt, LKA) or of the central Federal Criminal Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA). Each of the sixteen German Federal States (except one) has a LKA with a department carrying out forensic stain analyses. The 25 Institutes of Legal Medicine belong to the…

Metalografía aplicada y experimentación en los proyectiles de nueva generación

2015

Todos los trabajos de carácter científico tienen una amplitud de campos, los que conducen al desarrollo y las conclusiones de la investigación. La Balística Forense es una de las disciplinas de la Criminalística, la cual consta de una gran variedad de procesos, estos de gran importancia para conseguir resultados en la averiguación de delitos efectuados con armas de fuego. Es pues, dentro del apartado del trabajo de laboratorio, donde vamos a centrar nuestra labor de investigación, para lograr comprender muchos de los fenómenos que se dan en el uso de este tipo de munición y que, sin una base científica sólida, no podrían despejar muchas de las incógnitas que día a día se presentan en la vid…

Dalle mafie tradizionali ai sistemi criminali. E’ tutta questione di metodo

2008

Sistemi criminali e metodo mafioso (numero monografico di "Questione Giustizia")

2008

Il numero raccoglie le riflessioni e i contributi maturati durante il seminario di studi dal titolo Il metodo mafioso: dalle mafie tradizionali ai sistemi criminali svoltosi a Palermo tra il 19 ottobre e il 14 dicembre 2007.Il seminario – organizzato sotto il patrocinio della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo, in collaborazione con l’Ufficio dei Referenti per la Formazione professionale del Distretto di Palermo del Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura – ha rappresentato un’importante occasione per riunire a confronto operatori del diritto e studiosi del fenomeno mafioso, e con loro dar vita a una serie di momenti di riflessione e di scambio di cono…

Profiling a spectrum of mental job demands and their linkages to employee outcomes

2020

Substance abuse, conduct disorder (CD) and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are all known risk factors for developing aggressive behaviors, criminality, other psychiatric comorbidity and substance use disorders (SUD). Since early age of onset is important for aggravating the impact of several of these risk factors, the aim of the present study was to investigate whether young adult violent offenders with different patterns of early onset externalizing problems (here: substance use < age 15, ADHD, CD) had resulted in different criminality profiles, substance use problem profiles and psychiatric comorbidity in young adult age. A mixed-method approach was used, combining a varia…

Los migrantes irregulares en el Mediterráneo: El caso italiano y sus contradicciones

2019

Benché il discorso pubblico continui a richiamare una emergenza immigrazione, lo studio muove dai dati della consistenza reale del fenomeno, fortemente decrescenti nell’ultimo anno e mezzo. Si avverte poi l’esigenza di rivisitare la rilevanza penalistica del migrante irregolare, per superare la sua considerazione come mero oggetto del relativo trafficking, e si propone di mantenere invece un aggancio alla sua condizione di persona, che svolge il ruolo di soggetto necessario del favoreggiamento all’immigrazione clandestina, ancorché diverso dall’autore del relativo fatto di reato. Ciò consente di inquadrare meglio anche i relativi diritti nella delicata fase dell’accoglienza, e di passare po…

Ciò che dicono (e non dicono) le Sezioni Unite sul rapporto tra stalking, omicidio aggravato e lesioni aggravate

2022

Le Sezioni Unite hanno chiarito che il reato di omicidio commesso nei confronti della stessa persona offesa del reato di atti persecutori integra un reato complesso. Il presente contributo esamina le conseguenze che questo principio ha sul tema parallelo del rapporto tra il delitto di atti persecutori e il delitto di lesioni personali aggravate perché commesso dall'autore dello stalking nei confronti della stessa vittima. The United Sections have clarified that the crime of homicide committed against the same offended person as the crime of persecutory acts integrates a complex crime. This article examines the consequences that this principle has on the parallel theme of the relationship be…