Only recently have criminologist and victimologists started to study the problem of harassing, intrusive and reiterated behaviours damaging someone, defined by the English term stalking.

In America, only in the nineties, after a tragic event involving a famous person in California, did they start to discuss and study this phenomenon in ordr to identify its characteristics and possible intervention solutions. Until that time, no autonomous normative framework had ever been organised always recurring to crimes such as menace, damage, aggression and violence in general without defining the specific nature of this event. When defining stalking, we see diverse types of the situations. One of these has an obvious psychiatric meaning with delirious manifestations, often of erotomaniacal nature whereas the other concerns relations which finishedbadly and interest ex-partners or ex-spouses who are unable to work out separation and accept the relationshipìs ending. The phenomenon prevalently regards women. Read more »

Legislation and policies of the English government on the question of families and minors[1]

English legislation, in particular on domestic violence perpetrated on minors, took a decisive turn several years ago (2000) due to an emblematic case regarding a child called Victoria Climbé when for her case 3 housing authorities, 4 social services departments, 2 teams for the protection of minors of the Metropolitan Police Service, a specialized centre run by the NSPCC national service for the prevention and care of children and 2 hospitals were activated but the child died due to the violence suffered. Read more »

Legislation – Federal law concerning Aid to Crime Victims (LAV) Federal Constitution of 18.04.1999 Art. 124 “Aid to crime victims”. The Confederation and the Cantons make provisions so that a person suffering damage of his physical, psychic or sexual integrity as a result of a crime, receives help, as well as fair indemnity if economical difficulties derive from it.

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Tackling domestic violence is a high priority in Rotterdam. Domestic violence is a big problem, often with serious consequences for those involved and for society at large. It regularly occurs that people are actually killed as a result of this form of violence. The best way to stop it is to detect it, report it and to put it up for discussion early. The Rotterdam approach aims to stop domestic violence as soon as possible and to prevent violence from being passed down from one generation to the next. Read more »

The State Police is at present divided into proximity police. The new concept is a result of the new way of interpreting the term safety. All the phenomena coinciding directly and indirectly with social tranquillity are included in the new acceptance of the term.

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