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EPISODIC MURDERER [2 records]

Record 1 2024-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminal Psychology
  • Criminology
CONT

... to categorize the offenders into several groups : the chronic anti-social individual who is habitually aggressive and frequently abuses alcohol; the psychotic episode murderer whose violence is associated with delusions, loss of contact with reality and emotional tension which is relieved by the assault; and episodic or situational murderers whose assaults are the result of manic-depressive illness, organic brain dysfunction or cyclical alcoholism resulting in rage states.

Key term(s)
  • psychotic-episode murderer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie criminelle
  • Criminologie
CONT

[...] établir plusieurs catégories d'infracteurs : l'individu chroniquement anti-social qui est un agressif habituel et abuse souvent d'alcool; le meurtrier passagèrement psychotique dont la violence est associée à des fantasmes et à la perte de contact avec la réalité et qui trouve dans l'agression un exutoire à ses tensions émotionnelles; et le meurtrier occasionnel ou réactionnel dont les agressions sont dues à un syndrome maniaco-dépressif, à une dysfonction organique du cerveau ou à un alcoolisme cyclique qui provoque des états de rage.

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminal Psychology
  • Criminology
CONT

Available, published materials were used to describe 27 well-known multiple (or episodic) murderers. These cases were considered representative of the countries, time periods and diversity of crime types that constitute the phenomenon of multiple murder. To provide accurate and reliable case descriptions, two research instruments were developed from the content themes reviewed in the literature ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie criminelle
  • Criminologie

Spanish

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