The Impulsive Crime: Aspects of Psychopathology and Psychodiagnosis

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Author(s): Luca Cimino (University of Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Trends and Issues in Crime Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Victim Support
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Augusto Balloni (Italian Society of Victimology, Italy)and Raffaella Sette (University of Bologna, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1286-9.ch006

Keywords: Criminology & Victimology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Sociology

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The term “impulsive crime” is usually defined as a type of violent crime that arises suddenly under the pressure of intense emotional-affective involvement, against victims with whom an interpersonal relationship. The heterogeneity of the psycho(patho)logical frameworks underlying violent and sudden behavioral outbreaks has always represented one the most controversial and complex topics in forensic psychopathology. For this reason the author emphasizes importance of a approach characterized by a psychopathological and psychodiagnostics analysis, through the use in particular of the Rorschach Test, to understand the enigmatic nature of this type of offence that represents the “breaking point” the a particular and dramatic individual dimension, which develops and articulates within the context of the subject's life history, the analysis of which cannot be omitted if we wish to reach a position of “comprehension” of the criminogenesis and criminodynamics of the act itself, to implement even on appropriate therapeutic and preventive measures.

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