VENEZIA 20/21/22 GIUGNO 2018 – IUSVE – EFCAP Congresso “Young Victims and Young Offenders”
6th International Congress
“European Association for Forensic Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology & other Involved Professions”
LINK-ITALIA (APS) E’ LIETA DI PATROCINARE IL CONGRESSO
“Young Victims and Young Offenders”
CHE SI TERRA’ NELLE GIORNATE DEL 20 – 21 – 22 GIUGNO 2018 A VENEZIA
ORGANIZZATO DA EFCAP
DIREZIONE SCIENTIFICA A CURA DI IUSVE
Info: http://www.efcap2018.com/scientific-program/
Il giorno 22 giugno 2018 Francesca Sorcinelli parteciperà alla Sessione Italiana del Congresso in qualità di Presidente LINK-ITALIA (APS) Associazione fra i Patrocinatori dell’Evento e alla Sessione Internazionale in qualità di Relatore con la dissertazione
“Implicazioni Psicosociali dell’Esposizione di Minori alla Violenza su Animali”
ABSTRACT
Psychosocial Implication of Children’s Exposure to Animal Cruelty
In technical areas such as the psychological, psychiatric, criminological and investigative sciences, the term “LINK” indicates the close connection between animal abuse and interpersonal violence or any other anti-social, criminal and deviant behavior such as murder, sexual assault, stalking, domestic violence, robbery, drug-dealing, fraud, psychological manipulation, etc. Animal abuse and/or killing is not only a blameful act to be condemned but is also evidence of a symptom of a potentially pathological state of mind – specifically when children are victims of mistreatment, neglect and/or psychological, physical and/or sexual abuse and a predictor of current and/or future deviant, antisocial or criminal behaviors of escalating violence.
In other words, crimes such as those above indicated often represent the escalation of an initially deviant, antisocial and criminal behavior: animal abuse.
It must be highlighted that cruelty to animals is statistically one of the major symptoms of Conduct Disorder that young children display and can be defined as a symptom of a pathological condition and a serious indicator of social dangerousness, as it result from statistical data, studies, researches mainly conducted in USA and as it emerge also from the 1087 Link Cases collected and examined by LINK- ITALIA (APS) and N.I.R.D.A. (Investigative Unit for Crimes against Animals) of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato, with the support of the Department of Penitentiary Administration. These 1087 Link Cases include inmates who abused and/or killed animals and/or were exposed to animal cruelty in their childhood or adulthood.
Animal cruelty can be definitely defined as a symptom of a pathological condition and a serious indicator of social dangerousness. Cruelty to animals in general should never be considered as an isolated episode but as an integral, pathological and predictive part of a whole cycle of violence.
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