In Austria and Finland, quite equal proportions of filicide perpetrators, representing a reasonably high percentage of all living perpetrators (82 and 83%), underwent a forensic psychiatric examination.
The perpetrator represents experiences the society has been through before, and the stereotype that people still maintain.
In Perugia, a city in central Italy, the imam declared that the perpetrators "do not represent Islam nor the teachings of the Qu'ran," and that the attack damages the whole Muslim community.
This harassment has significant psychosocial costs for both the victim and the perpetrator and represents an opportunity for mental health intervention.
It is common for politicians to represent the perpetrators of violence as acting outside the boundaries of morality; their actions belong to an incomprehensible realm beyond our understanding of what is good and right.
The percentages in Table 2 represent the perpetrator(s) identified at the last instance of violence which was experienced, for the four types of violence, giving an idea of the frequency of the types of violence experienced by the sample of health workers.
"Sometimes the perpetrators who act against us represent governments, themselves, as happened with police raids on a gay bar in Kenya last year.
"The perpetrators of this cowardly act represent the failures of the past, and their actions run counter to the achievements, aspirations, and collective will of the people of Northern Ireland," she said.
Equally, each perpetrator left uninvestigated represents not a single miscarriage of justice, but a longer-lasting danger to others – a potential further sexual offence, or string of offences, that could have been prevented had the first victim been believed.
For the perpetrator, the act represents self abuse along with the destruction of significant others.
