title: [Craniosynostosis and criminal behavior].
abstract: Among 100 patients with turricephalus we found 37 with disorders of social adaption, 54% of them has been punishable, 22% even relapsing. Sexual offenders were dominating. Dysplasia of front cranial fossa with dominating exhibition of radiologic signs of craniostenosis frontal and frontotemporal let consider frontal cortex dysfunctions as basic disorder of psychic maldevelopment and delinquency of turricephalus persons.
authors.affiliation: Bezirkrankenhaus für Psychiatrie und Neurologie Mühlhausen.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fehlow
mesh_terms: D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000523:psychology*; D003415:Crime; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology*; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
vernacular_title: Turmschädel und Kriminalität.