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Alcoholism and Mentally Incompetent Perpetrators of Criminal Deeds

Although alcohol is one of the more investigated criminogenic factors, there are not many studies comparing it to the other factors encountered among the mentally incompetent perpetrators of criminal deeds. This paper presumes that there are differences among the mentally incompetent perpetrators of criminal deeds depending on the presence of diagnoses of alcoholism and alcohol-related disorders. The study uses the retrospective method, based on the comparison of data contained in legal-medical documentation of mentally incompetent perpetrators of criminal deeds. The sample consisted of 97 mentally incompetent perpetrators of criminal deeds with alcoholism (among the other diagnoses established) and 233 mentally incompetent perpetrators of criminal deeds recognized in the other diagnostic categories. The results showed that there is no statistically significant difference in structure of criminal deeds between the mentally incompetent perpetrators of criminal deeds depending on the presence of diagnosis of alcoholism.

alcohol dependence; criminology - criminal deed; mental incompetenc

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