title: [The alcoholic offender--significance for determination of guilt. A legal view].
abstract: This article examines legal questions of the combination of emotions and alcohol, because their frequent appearance together in 'crimes of love' has great importance both legally and to psychiatric research. Drawing on German Supreme Court decisions, possibilities and pitfalls in the search for viable criteria to determine the perpetrator's degree of guilt are looked at from legal and court psychiatric points of view.
authors.affiliation: Bundesgerichtshof, Karlsruhe. maatz-kurt-ruediger@bgh.bund.de
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Maatz
mesh_terms: D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication; D000437:Alcoholism; D003415:Crime; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D005858:Germany; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D014754:Violence