The Impulsive Crime

Abstract

The term “impulsive crime” is usually defined as a type of violent crime that arises suddenly under the pressure of intense emotional-affective involvement, against victims with whom an interpersonal relationship. The heterogeneity of the psycho(patho)logical frameworks underlying violent and sudden behavioral outbreaks has always represented one the most controversial and complex topics in forensic psychopathology. For this reason the author emphasizes importance of a approach characterized by a psychopathological and psychodiagnostics analysis, through the use in particular of the Rorschach Test, to understand the enigmatic nature of this type of offence that represents the “breaking point” the a particular and dramatic individual dimension, which develops and articulates within the context of the subject's life history, the analysis of which cannot be omitted if we wish to reach a position of “comprehension” of the criminogenesis and criminodynamics of the act itself, to implement even on appropriate therapeutic and preventive measures.