Izvorni znanstveni članak
Forensic Importance of Jealousy
Lana Mužinić
Miroslav Goreta
Vlado Jukić
Veljko Đorđević
Elvira Koić
Miroslav Herceg
Sažetak
The aim of the investigation is to define as clearly as possible specific forensic psychiatric
characteristics of persons who committed homicide and or attempted due to jealousy
(the nature and severity of psychopathology, the level of responsibility, danger for
the community, intensity and nature of aggression, the victimologic dimension, the relation
of alcohol and jealousy). A retrospective method based on forensic psychiatric expertises
in the period 1975–1999 was used. They encompassed 200 examinees that committed
murder or attempted it. The results show the connection of psychotic jealousy
with the highest degree of danger in diagnostic categories of paranoid psychosis and
paranoid schizophrenia. The time span from the first manifestations of jealousy until
the actual commitment of a crime is the longest in personality disorders and the shortest
in schizophrenia. Exogenous provoking situations were dominant for committing homicide
due to jealousy in personality disorders. Acute alcohol intoxication has a specific
significance in crime due to jealousy in the same diagnostic category. Clear criteria were
designed for forensic psychiatric evaluation of murder and attempts of homicide caused
by jealousy, which will be of help in everyday practice in the field forensic work and
treatment.
Ključne riječi
jealousy; forensic psychiatry; homicide; expertise; personality disorders; treatment
Hrčak ID:
28091
URI
Datum izdavanja:
16.6.2003.
Posjeta: 3.100 *