{Reference Type}: Journal Article
{Title}: [Characteristics of Schizophrenia Patients' Homicide Behaviors and Their Correlations with Criminal Capacity].
{Author}: Sun ZW;Shi TT;Fu PX;
{Journal}: Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi
{Volume}: 33
{Issue}: 1
{Year}: Feb 2017
暂无{DOI}: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-5619.2017.01.008
{Abstract}: OBJECTIVE: To explore the characteristics of schizophrenia patients' homicide behaviors and the influences of the assessments of criminal capacity.
METHODS: Indicators such as demographic and clinical data, characteristics of criminal behaviors and criminal capacity from the suspects whom were diagnosed by forensic psychiatry as schizophrenia (n=110) and normal mental (n=70) with homicide behavior, were collected by self-made investigation form and compared. The influences of the assessments of criminal capacity on the suspects diagnosed as schizophrenia were also analyzed using logistic regression analysis.
RESULTS: There were no significant statistical differences between the schizophrenic group and the normal mental group concerning age, gender, education and marital status (P>0.05). There were significant statistical differences between the two groups concerning thought disorder, emotion state and social function before crime (P<0.05) and there were significant statistical differences in some characteristics of the case such as aggressive history (P<0.05), cue, trigger, plan, criminal incentives, object of crime, circumstance cognition and self-protection (P<0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis suggested that thought disorder, emotion state, social function, criminal incentives, plan and self-protection before crime of the schizophrenic group were positively correlated with the criminal capacity (P<0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: The relevant influences of psychopathology and crime characteristics should be considered comprehensively for improving the accuracy of the criminal capacity evaluation on the suspects diagnosed as schizophrenia with homicide behavior.