Capital punishment as suicide and as murder.
Capital punishment may actually contribute to the incidence of murder because it can be sought as a result of suicidal motivations, and because it sets a malignant example of the use of killing as a legitimate coping device. Two case studies are offered as illustration.
D000328:Adult; D002203:Capital Punishment; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D003243:Consciousness; D004532:Ego; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006167:Guilt; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013405:Suicide; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014754:Violence; D014857:Warfare