Armando Saponaro
Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Italia

Armando Saponaro, PhD in Criminology, Law and Criminal Procedure, teaches Criminology at the Department of Educational sciences, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari. He authored one of earlier monographs published in Italy on victimology (2004) and originally contributed to theoretical victimology showing a development characterized by mirroring sociology of deviance theories so reversed to victims of crime such as structural-functionalism and labelling (2009; 2013; 2014). Furthermore, he has proposed victim-oriented paradigms and models of criminal justice from a socio-juridical perspective (2010, 2011, 2015, 2021), and the original construct of counter-stigma as a feature of late modern societies in the field of sociology of deviance (2017, 2021 in press).

Andrea De Leo
Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Italia

Andrea De Leo holds a BA in Psychological sciences and techniquesat the Department of Educational sciences, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro. He discussed a thesis in Criminology which investigates the role of post-traumatic stress disorder in the onset of violent behavior looking at its fictional representation in the work of Kentarō Miura, “Berserk”. His research interests are in the field of criminal psychology and psychopaty.