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KMID : 0381219900220010026
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Journal of RIMSK
1990 Volume.22 No. 1 p.26 ~ p.53
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The Socio-psychiatric Study on the Criminal Pattern of Mentally Illed Criminals
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Abstract
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This study was aimed to reveal clinico-legal aspects of criminal patterns in forensic psychiatric inpatients in order to help mentally illed criminals.
Subjects in this study were composed of 213 psychiatric in-patients who were institutionalized in the forensic psychiatric institutions.
Data were processed by IBM PC AT Computer using SPSS program and were statistically analyzed by chi-square test ANOVA and multiple discriminant function analysis. Summary of the results were as follows:
1) Male patients were arrested more often than female patients, their sex ratio was 5.5 to 1, and their mean ages was 34.4±8.4 years. It was 2 year older in the male as 34.7±8.3 years than female patients as 32.8±8.6 years.
2) Majority of offenders were diagnosed as psychotic disorder (92.0%), and half of them (50.2%) came from rural countries. Particularly in female offenders, these trends were prominent.
3) 43.2% of offenders had no experience of legal marital life, one third of offenders showed unstable marital status such as divorce (9.4%) separated (5.6%) widowed (6.6%) and cohabitated (11. 7%), and the rest of them (15.5%) showed stable marital status. The rate of unemployment in offenders was 32.9%. In sex differences, female offenders showed more unstable marital status, higher educational level, and lower employment rate than male offenders.
4) 0 type (32.4%) was the most frequent blood type in mentally illed criminals, particularly in male
cases, the rest of them showed A type (24.4%) B type (21.1%) or AB type (12.7%). In their physique, pyknic type was the most frequent ones (16.4%), and the other were leptosomic (11.7%) athletic (10. 8%) or dysplastic (6.6%). Male offenders were prone to have athletic type, while females have more pyknic physique comparing with males.
5) In the analysis of criminal offenses, murder such as murder (20.7%) parricide (15.5%) or negligent manslaughter (5.6%) was the most prevalent ones as 41.8%. The other offenses were violence’s as 29.6%, property offenses as 13.6%, felony as 9.9%, and other offenses as 5.2%. Violence was more in male than females, while murder was more prevalent in female.
6) In the depth analysis of criminal offense, the rate of drunken crime occupied 26.3%, it was more prevalent in males as 30.6% than in females as 6.1%. The other nonspecific offenses were family abuse as 25.8%, rape as 1.4%, fire setting as 4.7%, drug crime as 13.6%, and crime during menstruation as 31.3%, and premenstrual crime as 15.6%.
7) Age of onset in criminal offenses was 17.6±16.3 years, and rate of recidivism was 29.0% (male 28.4%, female 9.1%).
8) In the analysis of time sequence of crime, criminal offenses were apt to occur in winter, at afternoon, on Tuesday or Wednesday, and under the circumstance such as clear weather or rainy day.
9) In the analysis of space condition of crime, criminal offenses were apt to occur around their own home (37.6%), while most of male offenders offended their crime either around their victim´s houses or on the road.
10. In methods of offenses, instrumental aggressive crime by knife (27.7%) hard materials (11.3%) iron (10.8%) fist fight (9.4%) drug (3.8%) and gun (2.8%) was the more frequently used ones as 33. 3%. The others were physical aggression (22.5%) strangulation (6.6%) poisoning (3.8%) falling (2. 8%) gas infusion (2.3%) or forced threat (2.3%) in their orders. Particularly, male offenders were arrested by instrumental or physical aggressive crime, while females were arrested by strangulation or threatening.
11) Mentally illed criminals were apt to offend alone (79.8%), the others offended by command hallucination (5.3%), by persecutory idea (2.3%), with peer group (2.3%) or with their family members (1.4%). In their time duration from offence to arrest, immediate arrested were the most frequent ones as 72.4%. 22.1% of offenders showed immobilization after their offense. The others were sleeping (9.4%) arrested by neighborhood´s claims (8.5%) immediate arrested (8.0%) arrested by victim´s claim (7.5%) or escaping (6.6%) etc.
12) Major motivations of crime were casual accident (36.6%), chronic invalidism (13.1%), emotional conflict (4.7%), curiosity (3.8%), domestic problem (3.8%), and business problem (2.8%). Male offenders tended to offense by accident, while economical problems domestic worries or illness problems were more frequently observed offenses in female offenders.
13) The rate of offense by hallucination in female offenders was more than 3 times compared with males, and the rate of` delusional offense in females was more 2 times compared with males.
14) In status of victims, the most frequent ones was irresistible status by old age (11.3%) or drunken status (11.3%). The others were sleeping status (7.5%) quarrelsome status (7.8%) irresistible by younger age (7.0%) etc. By sex difference, male victims were more often hurt by old aged drunken status at raged quarrelsome status or working status, while females were hurt by irresistible status by younger aged sleeping status or preoccupation with other problems. Among victims, males (47.9%) were higher than females (36.2%) and majority of cases showed same sex person in their offender-victim relationship. Mean age of victim was 34.3±26.3 years old, and females showed 16. 7 years younger in their mean age of victim than male offenders. In their relationship with victims, family member was the most frequent ones as 32.9%, and the others were more anonymous person (31.0%) or relatives (6.6%).
15) In the degrees of damage, death was the most frequent ones as 42.7%, The others were
contusion (20.7%) bleeding (12.7%) fracture (1.9%) or burn (0.9%) in their orders. In management of damaged victims, immediate death was the most frequent ones as 34.7%. The others were ´admitted within 1 month (10.3%)´ ´outpatient treatment (8.9%)´ ´died after few days later (8.0%)´ ´admitted more than 2 months (3.8%)´ in their orders.
16) About half of offenders (54.5%) could recall their offense, and 27.7% known partially their offense, while 17.8% of them didn´t know their offense. In the evaluation of right wrong test toward their offenses, 38.0% showed fully aware of their offense, 8.0% as mostly aware, and 27.2% as partially aware, while 26.8% of them didn´t aware moral wrongfulness of their offenses. In their judgement about prospective result. 39.4% showed poor reality testing, particularly in females.
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