This article proposes a theoretical perspective on violent crime, using qualitative interviews with inmates in Italy and Brazil, who have perpetrated violence against women. In our proposal, "factors" such as "maleness/masculinity" or "patriarchate" influence violent crimes only if their authors, during their process of socialization, have built what we would describe as a "violent cosmology" through the internalization of attitudes, representations, symbols and self-images that sanction the male role with respect to the relationship of domination between males on the one hand, and female on the other. More generally, we suggest that a "radical interactionist" approach, in dialogue with narrative criminology, might help in recognizing the uniqueness, the integrality and the ambiguity of the lives of males who have attacked female bodies and in creating the preliminary conditions to deconstruct the patriarchal cosmologies that legitimate violence on the individual, social, cultural and institutional level.

Ceretti, A., Natali, L. (2023). Cosmologie violente e uomini che attaccano il corpo delle donne. Un approccio interazionista radicale. RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO, XII(2), 333-356 [10.4477/109071].

Cosmologie violente e uomini che attaccano il corpo delle donne. Un approccio interazionista radicale

Ceretti, A
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Natali, L
Co-primo
2023

Abstract

This article proposes a theoretical perspective on violent crime, using qualitative interviews with inmates in Italy and Brazil, who have perpetrated violence against women. In our proposal, "factors" such as "maleness/masculinity" or "patriarchate" influence violent crimes only if their authors, during their process of socialization, have built what we would describe as a "violent cosmology" through the internalization of attitudes, representations, symbols and self-images that sanction the male role with respect to the relationship of domination between males on the one hand, and female on the other. More generally, we suggest that a "radical interactionist" approach, in dialogue with narrative criminology, might help in recognizing the uniqueness, the integrality and the ambiguity of the lives of males who have attacked female bodies and in creating the preliminary conditions to deconstruct the patriarchal cosmologies that legitimate violence on the individual, social, cultural and institutional level.
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Male perpetrators; Narrative criminology; Qualitative approach; Radical interactionism; Violent crime;
Italian
2023
XII
2
333
356
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Ceretti, A., Natali, L. (2023). Cosmologie violente e uomini che attaccano il corpo delle donne. Un approccio interazionista radicale. RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO, XII(2), 333-356 [10.4477/109071].
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