Citation

Maatz KR. Nervenarzt, Der 2005; 76(11): 1389-1401.

Vernacular Title

Der alkoholisierte Affekttater -- Bedeutung fur die Schuldfahigkeit. Eine

Affiliation

Bundesgerichtshof, Karlsruhe. maatz-kurt-ruediger@bgh.bund.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00115-005-1913-x

PMID

15931539

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.

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