title: [Homicides--the sociodemographic background of the offender and the behavioral symptoms].
abstract: The authors examined 261 forensic-psychiatric reports to determine whether persons convicted of criminal homicide differed from persons convicted of other crimes with regard to personal biography, sociodemographic milieu, and character traits. Both groups were found to come from similarly disadvantaged social backgrounds. Murderers could not be distinguished on the basis of biographical data alone. The parameters found to be distinctive of murderers were: site of the crime, criminal-victim relationship, motive for the act, intoxication at the time of the crime, and the perpetrator's opinion regarding the purpose and intent of the homicide. The present findings confirm some of the results obtained by other authors on this topic.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sannemüller
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ullrich
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pillmann
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Draba
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marneros
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001526:Behavioral Symptoms / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
vernacular_title: Tötungsdelikte--soziodemographischer Hintergrund der Täter und tatspezifische Merkmale.