LI Chun,WANG Xiao-ping,Correlation between psychiatric symptom and the index offence of 341 schizophrenic offenders for criminal responsibility assessment[J].SICHUAN MENTAL HEALTH,2014,27(2):145-147
Correlation between psychiatric symptom and the index offence of 341 schizophrenic offenders for criminal responsibility assessment
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English keywords:Schizophrenia  Psychiatric Symptom  Crime
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LI Chun Brains Hospital of Hunan Province 
WANG Xiao-ping Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University 
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      Objective To understand the correlation between psychiatric symptom and the index offence of schizophrenic offenders for criminal responsibility assessment.Methods A self-developed questionnaire was used to investigate 341 schizophrenic offenders with no criminal responsibility by reason of mental disorder.The related information was recorded,such as the main psychiatric symptom (hallucination,delusion,hallucination and delusion coexisting,logic disorder,conduct disorder)during schizophrenic offenders implemented offence and the index offence (severe violent crime,non-severe violent crime).The Chi-Square Test was used to test the correlation between psychiatric symptom and the index offence of schizophrenic offenders in this study.Results ①Results of the Chi-Square Test showed that theχ^2=16.259,P=0.003(P〈0.05),contingency coefficient=0.213.②The frequence of delusion related to severe violent crime was 45.7% and the frequence of logic disorder related to non-severe violent crime was 44.3%.③In delusion or hallucination related to severe violent crime,the frequence of persecutory delusion and command hallucination were 82.8% and 54. 2% respectively,and in hallucination and delusion coexisting related to severe violent crime,the frequence of other verbal auditory hallucination and delusion of persecution coexisting was 7 6 .6% in these schizophrenic offenders.Conclusion The severe violent crime was may related to delusion and non-severe violent crime was may related to logic disorders in the schizophrenic offenders for criminal responsibility assessment.Delusion of persecution,command hallucination and other verbal auditory hallucination and delusion of persecution coexisting were may related to the severe violent crime of schizophrenic offenders for criminal responsibility assessment
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