Assessment process that aims to identify one or more possible reasons that could explain why the offender committed a crime. The process focuses on different aspects, such as personal and psychological features, life experiences, social and environmental factors, and in general, everything that led him to commit a crime.
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Criminological Treatment of Abusing Partners
Guido Travaini (University Vita e Salute San Raffale Milan, Italy), Palmina Caruso (University of Milan, Italy), Enrica Beringheli (University of Milan, Italy), and Isabella Merzagora (University of Milan, Italy)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1286-9.ch024
Abstract
Criminological rehabilitative treatments of abusive partners have always been considered of key importance from a preventive point of view. Criminological research, and our experience as criminologists, has proved that even the most abusive partners—including uxoricides—after their convictions repeat the same violent relationship pattern. That said, the Chair of Criminology (University of Milan) set up the first action and research program in Italy offering treatment for perpetrators of domestic violence, called S.A.Vi.D. (Stop Alla Violenza Domestica – an Italian acronym meaning: Stopping Domestic Violence) in 2010. Information about all the subjects treated will also be described and discussed: age, legal status motives, offender behavior prior to treatment, whether and how behavior changed after treatment.