title: [Court statements by psychiatrists and the information about the victim].
abstract: The author examined 90 psychiatry court statements of individuals suspected of battering the women with whom they were cohabiting. The goal of the study was to assess to what extent psychiatry court experts were interested in the victim involved, and whether they considered the victim's possible influence on the offender's mental state at the time of the crime. The number and scope of the information about the victim as contained in the court statements have also been assessed. Moreover, the source of the victim data was scrutinised. It turned out that there were very few trace and random pieces of information concerning the victim. Only in two cases fact that the impact of the victim had an effect on the mental state of the offender was taken into consideration. The author suggests that experts should explore the possible influence of the victim on the mental state of the offender at least in cases of evident victim-offender interaction.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Psychiatrii Sadowej, Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ciszewski
mesh_terms: D003416:Criminal Law; D017579:Domestic Violence; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D000078329:Workforce
vernacular_title: Wiktymologiczny aspekt opinii sadowo-psychiatrycznych.