ISSN : 2093-3843
This study was subjectively designed to analyze the issued thirty-three events to find out the perceived type of stress and level of stress in schizophrenic murder. And then, we examined the seven main murder patterns of schizophrenic murder. The stress perceived in homicidal schizophrenics were divided into nine stress factors such as conflicts with parents or family members, failure and frustration in occupation, not promoted, marital discords, unrealistic contents of thought. and so on. Especially, dominant stress factors happened before murdering were conflicts with parents or family members and unrealistic contents of thought. The murder methods of schizophrenic were characterized with several factors such as the pattern of murder, tools used, victims' body-condition, people targeted and peculiarities. Specifically, there were over-killing modes with tough tools such as the kitchen knife and hammers placed at home, the family members or parents targeted, the deep scars intensively distributed on the head and chest, the peculiarities like the eyeballs extracted from the face and amputated cord of victims' ankles, largely many defensive scars existed on arm and wrist, and so on. Based on these results, schizophrenic murders previously may experience a few murder-triggering stresses for a long time and revealed their own killing methods
Lee, a 24-year-old college student, killed his parent who had abused him for his entire life. Lee’s case can be regarded as a typical example of domestic violence ending up with extreme violence. Most of the characteristics of juvenile killers (Heide, 1992) are evident in Lee's case. His relationship with his parents were filled with conflict and anger and he had struggled with a tremendous feeling of tension, developing the idea that his parents are obstacles who ruined his life and the only way to resolve his inner tension is to kill them. His offense involves expressive aggression, which occurs in response to anger-inducing conditions. He had prepared to commit violence prior to the crime which can be seen by his behaviors such as preparing weapon and arranging the time of the offense. In terms of criminal responsibility, he is responsible for his offense as he did know the nature and quality of the act he was doing and did know he was doing what was wrong.
This study explored characteristics of stalking and its impact to domestic violence and spousal homicide. We applied correlation analysis between the seriousness of stalking and the risk of domestic violence with means of risk assessment tools. We categorized data based on the criminal records: murder/assault, criminal record/none, domestic violence/non domestic violence. Differences were found in the level of stalking in each group. In result, staking was apparent in 42.1% of spousal homicide and domestic violence cases, and stalking was highly correlated with the total score of DAS, a domestic violence assessment tool. People who murdered their spouses had greater risk in stalking than assault cases of spouses. Domestic violence group had greater risk of stalking than non domestic violence group. Consequently, it should be considered that law enforcement agencies had to pay more attention to the sign of stalking when they investigated domestic violence cases to prevent victims from loss of life.
The purpose of this study was to verify the predictive validity of KSORAS(Korean Sex Offender Risk Assessment Scale) which was developed in 2008. This study conducted follow-up recidivism of 745 sex offenders from the sample of the study 2 of the development study in 2008. Finally, 529 of the sample was analyzed. At the end of the follow-up period, 10.6% of the offenders had been reoffended any new sex offence. The survival rate of the high risk offenders(total score 13 and above) was significantly lower than that of the low risk offenders(total score 12 and below). Also, as the result of survival analysis, the cutoff-score 13 had the best significant difference between the high risk group and low risk group. These results support the fact that the cutoff-score 13 is valid to discriminate between high and low risk sex offenders.