Criminological Treatment of Abusing Partners

Criminological rehabilitative treatments of abusive partners have always been considered of key impor- tance from a preventive point of view. Criminological research, and our experience as criminologists, has proved that even the most abusive partners\u2014including uxoricides\u2014after 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 \u2013 an Italian acronym meaning: Stopping Domestic Violence) in 2010. Information about all the subjects treated will also be described and discussed: age, legal sta- tus motives, offender behavior prior to treatment, whether and how behavior changed after treatment

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth century Liguria

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. They opened up fresh tracts of countryside and provided novel viewpoints and points of interest; many travellers took the opportunity to record these views with topographical drawings and watercolours. In this paper we make use of some of these views to examine how the modernized transport routes released new places to be celebrated by tourists and became themselves features and objects of especial interest and comment. We examine the works of three artists, one English and two Italian, who depicted landscapes of contrasting rural Ligurian landscapes. Their drawings and prints are contextualised and interpreted with maps, field data, archival documents and contemporary descriptions of roads and railways by travellers and in guidebooks

Segnalazione di due casi di violenza domestica mediante stuffing con protesi

Introduzione: le parafilie sono disturbi psico-sessuali ascrivibili a forme erotizzate di odio e rancore. Il presente lavoro si propone di analizzare e comparare un caso di violenza sessuale intrafamiliare sfociato in omicidio ed uno in cui la vittima riesce ad evitare il peggio attraverso la richiesta di aiuto ai servizi psico-sociali e la denuncia. Materiali e Metodi: nel caso giunto a decesso l\u2019evento lesivo \ue8 stato identificato solo a mezzo di esame autoptico attraverso l\u2019evidenza di una soluzione di continuo a tutto spessore della parete vaginale estesa dalla fossetta navicolare al fornice posterolaterale nonch\ue9 piccole, plurime lesioni cuneiformi superficiali ed aree ecchimotiche vaginali. Conclusioni e discussione: nei casi riportati, le forme di perversione coinvolgono vittima e carnefice in una spirale sado-masochista dalla quale la vittima raramente e con grande ambivalenza riesce a trovare la forza di uscire. In tutto simili per modalit\ue0 e \u201cstrumenti\u201d (protesi) utilizzati per perpetrare la violenza, entrambi i casi riportano a gravi fenomeni di perversione, in cui la sottile linea di demarcazione tra parafilie vere e proprie ed altri tratti caratteriali dei soggetti coinvolti, assume notevole interesse medico-legale e criminologico

L'apporto dell'\ue9quipe della criminologia all'assistenza ai parenti delle vittime del disastro aereo di Linate

L'articolo esamina la Letteratura scientifica in materia di lutto, Disturbo Post-Traumatico da Stress e metodologie atte a fronteggiare questo tipo di emergenze.Descrive, inoltre, l'esperienza di supporto, condotta dall'\ue9quipe facente capo alla Cattedra di Criminologia dell'Istituto di Medicina Legale dell'Universit\ue0 di Milano, ai parenti delle vittime del disastro aereo di Linate del 2001

Quality in Emergency Department: a study on 3,285,440 admissions

Introduction. A multi-centre study has been conducted, during 2005, by means of a questionnaire posted on the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine (SIMEU) web page. Our intention was to carry out an organisational and functional analysis of Italian Emergency Departments (ED) in order to pick out some macroindicators of the activities performed. Participation was good, in that 69 ED (3,285,440 admissions to emergency services) responded to the questionnaire. Methods. The study was based on 18 questions: 3 regarding the personnel of the ED, 2 regarding organisational and functional aspects, 5 on the activity of the ED, 7 on triage and 1 on the assessment of the quality perceived by the users of the ED. Results and conclusion. The replies revealed that 91.30% of the ED were equipped with data-processing software, which, in 96.83% of cases, tracked the entire itinerary of the patient. About 48,000 patients/year used the ED: 76.72% were discharged and 18.31% were hospitalised. Observation Units were active in 81.16% of the ED examined. Triage programmes were in place in 92.75% of ED: in 75.81% of these, triage was performed throughout the entire itinerary of the patient; in 16.13% it was performed only symptombased, and in 8.06% only on-call. Of the patients arriving at the ED, 24.19% were assigned a non-urgent triage code, 60.01% a urgent code, 14.30% a emergent code and 1.49% a life-threatening code. Waiting times were: 52.39 min for non-urgent patients, 40.26 min for urgent, 12.08 for emergent, and 1.19 for life-threatening patients

Quality in emergency departments: a study on 3,285,440 admissions

INTRODUCTION: A multi-centre study has been conducted, during 2005, by means of a questionnaire posted on the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine (SIMEU) web page. Our intention was to carry out an organisational and functional analysis of Italian Emergency Departments (ED) in order to pick out some macro-indicators of the activities performed. Participation was good, in that 69 ED (3,285,440 admissions to emergency services) responded to the questionnaire. METHODS: The study was based on 18 questions: 3 regarding the personnel of the ED, 2 regarding organisational and functional aspects, 5 on the activity of the ED, 7 on triage and 1 on the assessment of the quality perceived by the users of the ED. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The replies revealed that 91.30% of the ED were equipped with data-processing software, which, in 96.83% of cases, tracked the entire itinerary of the patient. About 48,000 patients/year used the ED: 76.72% were discharged and 18.31% were hospitalised. Observation Units were active in 81.16% of the ED examined. Triage programmes were in place in 92.75% of ED: in 75.81% of these, triage was performed throughout the entire itinerary of the patient; in 16.13% it was performed only symptom-based, and in 8.06% only on-call. Of the patients arriving at the ED, 24.19% were assigned a non-urgent triage code, 60.01% a urgent code, 14.30% a emergent code and 1.49% a life-threatening code. Waiting times were: 52.39 min for non-urgent patients, 40.26 min for urgent, 12.08 for emergent, and 1.19 for life-threatening patients