Citation

Juszczak D, Korzeniewski K, Czupryńska K, Furs M. Pol. Merkuriusz Lek. 2015; 38(228): 326-328.

Vernacular Title

Charakterystyka sprawców przestępstw seksualnych nadużywających alkoholu w świetle analizy opiniowania sądowego.

Affiliation

7th Navy Hospital of Gdańsk, Poland.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, MEDPRESS - Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26098651

Abstract

UNLABELLED: The relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual crime appears to be unquestionable. However, the mechanisms that lead to violence and aggression under the influence of alcohol are not entirely understood in this group of offenders.

AIM: The aim of this paper was to attempt answering the question: what are the features characterizing sexual offenders declaring alcohol abuse.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The research material consisted of 180 forensic psychiatric- sexology assessments issued by experts from Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic in 10 Military Hospital Clinic in Bydgoszcz between 2004 to 2012. A specially designed questionnaire titled "Charter of Diagnosis of Factors Determining Criminal Sexual Activity" has been used.

RESULTS: Relevant statistical dependences were observed.

CONCLUSIONS: The obtained results show that, a alcohol abuse has a sexual criminogenic effect especially in the coincidence that there are sustainable personality abnormalities and organic CNS damage. The conducted study prove that the sexual perpetrators who abuse alcohol have a poor level of social functioning and brought up in dysfunction families having alcoholic problems.

Language: pl