title: [The characteristics of sexual offenders abusing alcohol in view of forensic-psychiatric assessments].
abstract: The relationship between alcohol consumption and sexual crime appears to be unquestionable. However, the mechanisms that lead to violence and aggression under the influence of alcohol are not entirely understood in this group of offenders.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper was to attempt answering the question: what are the features characterizing sexual offenders declaring alcohol abuse.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research material consisted of 180 forensic psychiatric- sexology assessments issued by experts from Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic in 10 Military Hospital Clinic in Bydgoszcz between 2004 to 2012. A specially designed questionnaire titled "Charter of Diagnosis of Factors Determining Criminal Sexual Activity" has been used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Relevant statistical dependences were observed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The obtained results show that, a alcohol abuse has a sexual criminogenic effect especially in the coincidence that there are sustainable personality abnormalities and organic CNS damage. The conducted study prove that the sexual perpetrators who abuse alcohol have a poor level of social functioning and brought up in dysfunction families having alcoholic problems.
authors.affiliation: 7th Navy Hospital of Gdańsk, Poland.
authors.forename: Dariusz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Juszczak
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Korzeniewski
authors.affiliation: The University of Gdansk, Faculty of Law and Administration.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Czupryńska
authors.affiliation: 7th Navy Hospital of Gdańsk, Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Furs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: alcohol abuse; the sex offences