Journal of Forensic Research

Stefania Auricchio

Publications

• Case Report
  Crime and Mental Illness: Impulsivity and Jealousy in a Case of Uxoricide
  Author(s): Chiara Sarappa, Gianpiero Sica, Cecilia Aurino, Stefania Auricchio, Claudio Buccelli, Pierpaolo Di Lorenzo and Diana GallettaChiara Sarappa, Gianpiero Sica, Cecilia Aurino, Stefania Auricchio, Claudio Buccelli, Pierpaolo Di Lorenzo and Diana Galletta
  
  Psychiatry has always played both a clinical and controller role of social dangerousness, in a culturally accepted vision. This variety of roles appears to be much more evident when psychiatry aims to study the relationships between aggressiveness, impulsivity, mental illness and crime. In those cases, psychiatrists must assess the capability to judge when a crime is committed, that is to say the imputability of a culprit affected by a mental illness, (articles 88 and 89 of the Italian Penal Code). There are cases in which a culprit suffers of a “major” mental illness, such as those belonging to the Axis I of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-Text Revision (DSM IV-TR), or those which the classic psychopathology describes as schizophrenic psychosis or manic-depressive psychosis, but the culprit&rs.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7145.1000202

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