Dalla violenza sui minori alla violenza dei minori

[Autom. eng. transl.] Researchers have long agreed that violence against minors has very serious effects on their mental health and neurodevelopment, with long-term consequences (Bianchi and Moretti 2015). This intervention, however, does not so much question the violence suffered by minors as the violence they perpetrate. There are violent behaviors of children and adolescents that often question and put adults in difficulty. In some clinical contexts, they are often conceived as symptoms of some individual disorders: Conduct disorder, Intermittent explosive disorder, Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, Antisocial personality disorder (APA, 2022). In the educational or legal field, especially starting from preadolescence, some of these behaviors are instead classified as phenomena of deviance from shared social rules. In these cases, they take the form and label of bullying, hooliganism, gang violence, physical and sexual abuse, parental abuse, or VFP, that is, filial-parental violence (Pereira, 2023). The prevalence of one interpretation or another depends greatly on the context and the age of the minors involved. The title “violence of minors” therefore includes phenomena that are very different from each other.