Relazione tra offender e vittima. Dalle rivelazioni di uno stupratore seriale e delle sue vittime

Scientific literature about violent crimes has focused more and more specifically on the analysis of the interpersonal relationship established between an offender and his victim. The interaction between offender and victim has to be assessed as a circular relationship, where the importance of the parties is established by their respective value and position. The “victim” is not only the outcome of the offender's behavior, but it is also part of a dyadic relationship whose breaking up enables us to only partially read the relevant event. So the crime scene is observed in its whole dimension and in its development considering that the definition of the acting parties' role can be given only in the moment when the crime is perpetrated. Such a definition will then acquire only a descriptive value relating to the facts narration.