@article{ref1,
title="Homicide and alcohol consumption. A medico-legal and psychiatric interdisciplinary approach. Multivariate analysis",
journal="Romanian journal of legal medicine",
year="2015",
author="Iliescu-Bulgaru, Diana and Costea, Gabriela and Scripcaru, Andrei and Ciubara, Ana-Maria",
volume="23",
number="2",
pages="137-142",
abstract="Alcohol-related disorder is defined as a cluster including behavioural changes and physical symptoms. The ICD-10-CM code includes alcohol intoxication, alcohol withdrawal and another alcohol-induced mental disorders. The most severe behavioural changes of alcohol-related disorders is represented by aggressive behaviour. The hereby study analyses how aggressiveness is manifested in murderers. This is a document-based retrospective study, regarding a batch of 185 murderers who have been subject to forensic psychiatric expertise for homicide. Many variables were analysed, with the study targeting a possible correlation between alcohol-related disorders and the features of a homicide (impulsive or elaborated homicide, homicide with/ without cruelty). Alcohol-related disorders were grouped into two categories: alcohol intoxication (classified as a &quot;circumstance&quot;) and the remaining psychiatric alcohol-related disorders (classified as &quot;conditions&quot;). The following have been considered: distress factors, social support (primary support included), co-morbidity with organic mental disorders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders and bipolar disorders. The analysis models were the following: Kendall bivariate correlation, cross-tabulation, cluster analysis and factorial analysis. The SPSS 16 software was used. The obtained results showed that, irrespective of whether the homicide was perpetrated strictly under the influence of alcohol (non-pathological use of alcohol or alcohol intoxication - &quot;alcohol - circumstance&quot;) or within a severe alcohol-related pathology (&quot;alcohol - condition&quot;), the mechanisms triggering homicide are similar, with co-factoriality being more important than psychiatric co-morbidity in orientation towards aggressiveness.   Keywords: alcohol - related disorders, homicide, circumstances, conditions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1221-8618",
doi="10.4323/rjlm.2015.137",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4323/rjlm.2015.137"
}