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Bus hijacking by a pre‐schizophrenic: From a viewpoint of criminal romance
Author(s) -
SATOH SHINJI,
OBATA SHUGO,
TANAKA HAYASHI,
ITO SHINJI,
ISHIZUKA CHIAKI,
MINOSHITA SEIKO,
MORITA NOBUAKI
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1997.tb02587.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , romance , psychiatry , psychology , crime scene , criminology , psychoanalysis , engineering , mechanical engineering
There are cases in which no clear symptoms of schizophrenia are observed in a person at the time of a crime but are diagnosed to have schizophrenia after the crime due to the appearance of typical symptoms. We present psychiatric evidence of a patient who saw a bus hijacking incident on TV during several years of isolation at home after graduation from junior high school, and was then determined to hijack a bus, and carried out the crime 6 months later. The patient exhibited clear symptoms of schizophrenia 3 days after the crime. This case of a crime committed before the appearance of clear symptoms of schizophrenia was evaluated from the viewpoint of verbrecherromantik or ‘criminal romance’.