Значение на психичната болест на извършител на изключително тежко престъпление при индивидуализацията на най-тежките наказания доживотен затвор и доживотен затвор без замяна в българската съдебна практика
The legal relevance of the mental disease of the perpetrator of an extremely dangerous crime in the process of individualization of the gravest penalties - life imprisonment without commutation and life imprisonment - according to the Bulgarian judic

Author(s): Iva Pushkarova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Psychology, Criminal Law, Sociology, Individual Psychology, Penology
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Schizophrenia; Alcoholism; Hallucinatory Syndrome; Paranoid Syndrome; Life Imprisonment; Grave Penalties; Individualization of Penalty
Summary/Abstract: Perpetrators of extreme crime often suffer from brain diseases which do not exclude legal sanity – schizophrenia and alcoholic disease. Traditional judicial practice regards them as mitigating circumstances which prevent the imposition of the gravest penalty prescribed. However, after the introduction of life imprisonment (1996) and life imprisonment without commutation (1998) judicial approaches deviate from that concept thus establishing conflicting solutions. The article argues that traditional concepts should be restored. The article is based on a case-law study and an in-depth analysis of a selection of cases.

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