PREDRASUDE O PSIHIČKI OBOLJELIM LICIMA I UBOJSTVIMA
PREJUDICES ABOUT MENTALLY ILL PERSONS AND MURDER

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: Murder, as the most heinous act of man, which takes away the highest moral and legal right, throughout history has encountered various reflections, researches, but above all condemnation from the wider scientific, professional, and general public. A large part of such deliberations and assessments is based on a layman's approach, very often imputing the act of murder to some form of mental disorder, without study and scientific, but above all professional analysis. Objective: the main objective is to show the correlation and causal link between the crime of murder and one of the mental disorders. Such a causal connection is certainly present and persistent, but this raises the scientific question of whether such a correlation is equal, smaller, or greater in relation to the control sample or the general population, i.e., the number of murders committed by mentally normal persons. Methods: scientific work takes place primarily within the framework of Grounded Theory, within which the method of content analysis, method of description and method of analogy will be applied. In the framework of the work, as a confirmation of the obtained qualitative results, statistical reports from the competent authorities will be used, as well as several examples of case studies. Results: the discussion and the results of scientific research on the question can only be known by triangulating scientific research in the fields of psychiatry and criminology, but also criminal psychology, which also investigates other factors of influence, such as the environment, within the scope of its research. The results of the scientific work will undoubtedly show a deferential difference that shows a far greater number of murders committed by mentally normal persons, but also a causal connection between mass murders and mental disorders. Conclusion: the basic starting assumption in this scientific paper starts from the hypothesis that: "criminal acts of murder and mental disorders coincide, but far less than in relation to the general population.". Scientific statistics clearly show us that the majority of murders are committed by mentally normal people, but that mass murders almost always carry with them the hallmarks of some serious and, in a large number of cases, latent mental illness.

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