![]() ![]() ![]() Homicide can operate on the emotional sphere of people, and for this reason, it has constantly stimulated the search for the prominent traits of criminal personality and for the motivations behind it, focusing each time on the social conditions and the prior events, pathological and non-pathological. The social interest-sometimes more important than the legal one-lies in the fact that homicide represents the destruction of a greater good. Homicide represents the most serious consequence of violence. Implications of the findings and avenues for future research are discussed.Ĭontrol of interpersonal violence is one of the fundamental tasks of the society. The most common motive proved to be a dispute for futile reasons however, in the case of a single perpetrator of the crime, the economic and passionate motives are as frequent as the previous one. The type of damage can be linked to the sole action of a cold weapon or the simultaneous use of multiple harmful tools with no significant differences. The victims and the perpetrators of overkill shared similar characteristics: they were usually male aged between 20 and 50 years, more likely in the 20–35 years range victims however also showed another age peak in the range 50–55 years. Data on 71 overkill cases from reports of the autopsies performed in the Section of Legal Medicine of the University of Rome Tor Vergata from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2020 were collected. Our study aimed to analyze the information related to the dynamics of overkill cases, collecting objective variables, and producing a profile of the players involved in this type of homicides. Despite the large use of this term, it does not have a definition in the literature yet. “Overkill” is characterized by the finding of excessive wounds on the victim’s body. ![]()
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