Who commits sexual violence in Italy? Official data and an appeal to politics
What are the real data and officers of the offenses in background sexual in Italy? Based on the Istat data obtained from Ministry of the Interiorin the 2020 have been reported or 4,595 people arrested for sexual violence. Of these, about 41% (or 1,888) was composed of Foreign citizens. An identical percentage is also found in the prison population: in 2020, 41.5% of prisoners for sexual violence (1,291 out of 3,111) were foreigners.
There percentage of the 41.5% then appears between statistics of the condemned, again for this type of crime, with a definitive sentence. These numbers are not very different from those of 2021, still under development.
Now, these numbers serve the political propagandaon the one hand to emphasize that, in the face of a population foreign regular of about 8.5%, as much as 41% of sexual assault is committed by foreigners. A figure that is used to explain how foreigners, in percentage, commit sex crimes in a proportionally greater number than Italians.
On the other hand, this data is used to argue that ‘sexual violence’, according to our penal code, does not necessarily mean ‘rape’, but can also be a simple groping or an unwanted kiss from the victim, and that therefore must not to consider ‘rapist’ who yes limit to one touch not wanted by the victim.
Both positions are right, but they are lacking in important aspects. They are right because the data doesn’t lie, and there is incontrovertibly a notable difference between the percentage of foreigners present on the national territory and that of those who commit sexual crimes. And why is it true that for ‘violence sexual‘means anything that has to do with the intimate sphere of a person where there is no consent, but that obviously one thing is rape, another is the touching of a part of the body considered sexually attractive.
But they also have a flaw, these positions. Where you point your finger at the problem without proposing one solution, which could be that of cultural change and the need to inculcate (yes, really inculcate) the principle of respect for the other, starting from the assumption that sending back all those who are here more or less regularly and who commit crimes, is in fact impossible . And where, on the one hand, frontal battles are fought against the so-called cat callingthat is, the whistle on the street, which is not even a crime, but on the other hand there is a tendency to downsize conduct that is a crime, such as the slap on the ass or the “dead hand” on the bus.
It takes the courage to say, without the risk of being accused of discrimination or, worse still, racism, that there is a cultural problem of the way in which women are viewed by certain mentalities and certain cultures. A mentality that is still part of the Western way of thinking, but which perhaps to a greater extent belongs to other parts of the world, with which we are interfaced and interconnected, in an ever closer and increasingly interdependent relationship.
Because of this, is critical than in a process of hospitality And integration have ample space to learn respect for each other e equality full between man And woman, just as every child, of any nationality and from any family he comes from, must be educated to see himself in the other, with his own joys and emotions. This is missing in political programs. And it is a serious lack.
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