Citation

Satoh S, Obata S, Tanaka H, Ito S, Ishizuka C, Minoshita S, Morita N. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 1997; 51(4): 223-225.

Affiliation

Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9316168

Abstract

There are cases in which no clear symptoms of schizophrenia are observed in a person at the time of a crime but are diagnosed to have schizophrenia after the crime due to the appearance of typical symptoms. We present psychiatric evidence of a patient who saw a bus hijacking incident on TV during several years of isolation at home after graduation from junior high school, and was then determined to hijack a bus, and carried out the crime 6 months later. The patient exhibited clear symptoms of schizophrenia 3 days after the crime. This case of a crime committed before the appearance of clear symptoms of schizophrenia was evaluated from the viewpoint of verbrecherromantik or 'criminal romance'.

Language: en