Mujeres parricidas: un estudio descriptivo / Female parricide: a descritive study

Resumen El parricidio es un crimen en el que las víctimas son los genitores y los agresores, los hijos. La mayoría de los crímenes son cometidos por hombres contra genitores masculino, sólo el 14% de los homicidios son cometidos por mujeres. El objetivo de este estudio fue recoger, en reportajes de diarios brasileños, de 1994 hasta mayo de 2017, parricidios cometidos por mujeres, adultas y adolescentes. Se encontraron 64 casos, en los que el 51,6% de las víctimas eran los padres, el 37,5% las madres y el 9,4% de doble parricidio. El arma blanca fue utilizada en el 57,8% de los casos y la de fuego en 23,4% de ellos. Los abusos (malos tratos y violaciones) fueron los motivos para el crimen relatados por el 54,7% de ellos. La mayoría de los cuerpos 79,7% fueron encontrados en la residencia de la víctima. Comprender los determinantes de este tipo de crimen podrá evitar que sus antecedentes sean negligenciados por la legislación.

Parricide is a crime that has parents as victims and children as offenders. Most of these killing are committed by male against their fathers, whereas only 14% of the homicides are perpetrated by female. The purpose of this study was to collect from Brazilian newspaper articles published between 1994 and May 2017, cases of parricide committed by both adult and adolescent female. From a total of 64 cases, 51.6% of the victims were fathers, 37.5% mothers and 9.4% both parents. White weapons were used in 57.8% of the cases and firearms in 23.4% of them. Abusive behavior such as maltreatment and rape was the motive in 54.7% of the cases. Most of the dead bodies (79.7%) were found in the victim's home. Understanding the determinants of this type of crime may prevent the respective criminal background from being neglected by law.

Totem e tabu: notas sobre parricídio e ficção / Totem and taboo: notes about parricide and fiction

RESUMO: O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de realizar uma leitura aprofundada do mito totêmico, presente em Totem e tabu, ressaltando a conexão deste episódio com a ficção e a especificidade que esta terá na obra freudiana ao figurar como uma cena que transcende a fantasia e a realidade ao apontar para algo anterior ao próprio psiquismo.

Abstract: The present work has the objective to carry out an in-depth reading of the totemic myth, present in Totem and taboo, emphasizing the connection of this episode with the fiction and his specificity in the Freudian's works as it appears as a scene that transcends fantasy and reality by pointing to something anterior to the psyche itself.

Parricide et violence psychique dans la famille: le rapport d'une mère / Parricide and psychic violence in the family: a mother tells / Parricidio y violencias psíquicas en la familia: una madre le dice

Sur la base du discours d'une mère venue nous consulter, nous reprenons les faits saillants de son récit sur le parricide commis par son fils adolescent sur son ex-mari. À la suite de son discours, nous explorons la psychopathologie du lien parent-enfant pour mettre en évidence la violence psychologique qui aurait pu mener à l'action du fils. Les hypothèses dynamiques qui se dégagent de ce parricide touchent à la complicité mère-fils, au deuil impossible des figures parentales et à la nature incestueuse des liens familiaux.

Based on the discourse of a mother who came to us for consultation, we take up the highlights of her narrative on the parricide committed by her adolescent son on her exhusband. Following her discourse, we explore the psychopathology of the parent-child bond to highlight the psychological violence which could have led to the son's action. The dynamic hypotheses that emerge with regard to this parricide touch on mother-son complicity, the impossible mourning of the parental figures and the incestuous nature of familial ties.

A partir de las declaraciones de una madre recibida en consulta, reanudamos los puntos salientes de este relato sobre el parricida actuado por el hijo adolescente de ella sobre su ex marido. Siguiendo el hilo de su discurso, exploramos la psicopatología de los lazos padres-niños para destacar las violencias psicológicas que pudieron contribuir este paso al acto. Las hipótesis dinámicas que emergen concerniendo a este parricidio tocan la complicidad madre-hijo, el luto imposible de las figuras paternas o todavía el carácter incestuoso de los lazos familiares.

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Characteristics of Parricide Offenders with Schizophrenia in Korea

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to examine the personality characteristics in parricide offenders, by using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test, which is commonly used in clinical medicine. METHODS: A total of 73 parricide offenders with schizophrenia who were admitted to National Forensic Hospital in Gongju city between September 2014 and February 2015, and 104 comparison schizophrenia patients who had been admitted to Dankook University Hospital in Cheonan city the same hospital, completed the Korean version of the MMPI. RESULTS: The parricide offender group showed significantly higher on L, F, Hs, Hy and Pd than the comparison group. The result of the regression analysis indicated that Pd and Si significantly increased the odd ratio of the sexual offender group by 2.77 times and 0.32 times, respectively (p=0.029 and p=0.023). The offenders of parricide may have developed the following characteristics: hypochondriasis, hysteria and psychopathic deviate. CONCLUSION: These results suggested that the psychopatholgy in the offenders of parricide might be different, compared to the control group.

"Ninguém esquece uma coisa dessas": problematizações sobre parricídio e hospitais de custódia / " Nadie se olvida de una cosa": problematizaciones sobre parricidio y hospitales de custodia / "No one forgets a thing like that": problematizations about parricide and custody hospitals

O considerado inimputável é absolvido por não entender o caráter ilícito de seu ato, embora, por medida de segurança, seja internado compulsoriamente em um hospital de custódia e tratamento psiquiátrico (HCTP): uma instituição pertencente ao sistema penitenciário. Cria-se assim a ambígua figura dolouco infrator - ora criminoso, ora doente mental - que raramente vimos contemplada em discussões e ações nas áreas da saúde e do direito. Ainda menos acolhido será aquele que atentar contra a vida de seus genitores: o chamado parricida. A partir dos aportes teóricos de Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Derrida, este trabalho discute discursos e práticas que se debruçam tanto sobre a questão da loucura, da infração e do parricídio quanto sobre a instituição do HCTP como modalidade de contenção e encaminhamento para os inimputáveis; assim como serão apresentadas discussões a partir das falas de pessoas classificadas como loucas, infratoras, parricidas - internadas em um HCTP.

El considerado inimputable es absuelto por no entender el carácter ilícito de su acto, aunque, por razones de seguridad, sea obligatoriamente ingresado en un hospital de custodia y tratamiento psiquiátrico (HCTP), una institución perteneciente al sistema penitenciario. Por lo tanto, se crea la figura ambigua del delincuente loco - ya sea infractor, a veces enfermo mental - que rara vez se ve abordado en las discusiones y acciones en materia de salud y del derecho. Menos bien recibido todavía será el que ponga en peligro la vida de sus padres: el llamado parricida. A partir de los aportes teóricos de Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben y Jacques Derrida, este trabajo analiza los discursos y las prácticas que se centran tanto en el tema de la locura, de la infracción y del parricidio, como en la institución de HCTP como modo de contención y asignación de los imputables; así como los debates se presentarán a partir de los discursos de las personas clasificadas como locos, parricidas, infractores - admitidos en un HCTP.

The person considered as unimputable is acquitted for not understanding the illicit character of his act, although, for security reasons, he is compulsorily hospitalized at a custody and psychiatric treatment hospital (CPTH), which is an institution belonging to the penitentiary system. It is created then the ambiguous figure of the crazy offender, either criminal or mentally ill, who is rarely seen or addressed in discussions and actions in health and law areas. Even less accepted is going to be the person who endangers his parents' lives: the so-called parricide. Starting from theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Derrida, this study develops discourses and practices that focus on issues of insanity, offense and parricide, and also, about the establishment of the CPTH as containment and referral modality for unimputable people. Accordingly, there will be presented some discussions regarding what people classified as crazy, offenders and parricides who are hospitalized at the CPTH have to say.

Analysis of Parricide and Filicide in Korea / 대한법의학회지

Parricide, the crime of murdering a parent, accounts for about 5% of all homicides. Filicide is the crime of murdering one's own child. This study aimed to review demographic features and criminal characteristics of individuals who committed parricide and filicide in Republic of Korea (ROK). This study is based on data from the Korea Police Crime Analysis System, from 2006~2013. We assessed the diverse characteristics of both victims and perpetrators. Over the selected period, 381 parents were killed by their children and 230 children were killed by parents in the ROK. Parricides caused by schizophrenic murders accounted for 39.6% of all cases. Moreover, approximately 44.4% of the perpetrators attempted suicide following the maternal filicide. In our findings, psychiatric illness was a very important predictor in parricide, and these further suggest that young mothers with severe mental illness require careful monitoring by mental health support service.

Caracterización psiquiátrica del delito de parricidio: [revisión] / Psychiatric characterization of parricide: [review]

In Chile, legally commits parricide the one that, knowing the relationships that binds them, kills his/her father, mother or child, or any other of his/her ascendants or descendants, or spouse or couple. It is a rare crime, being around 4 percent of the homicides. The objective of this review is to characterize parricide psychiatrically, which is done basically using international literature. There are different profiles of parricides depending on the characteristics of the situation in which the crime is committed. The most frequent profile is that of a young male adult, with acute psychotic pathology, associated to drug and alcohol abuse. A second type is represented by adolescents in three situations: the severely abused child, the severely mentally ill child, and the dangerously antisocial child. To kill own children is a form of parricide as well, and there are differences between the psychiatric profiles of neonaticide, infanticide and filicide committers. Femicide is the murder of women committed by men on grounds of gender, and legally constitutes parricide. The most frequent is the intimate femicide, and it is associated with prior violence and drug and alcohol abuse. Parricide, even though it is an infrequent event, it is an important fact between psychiatric patients, being, in consequence, very relevant for the psychiatrist and mental health workers, the knowledge of this issue.

En Chile, legalmente, comete parricidio el que, conociendo las relaciones que los ligan, mate a su padre, madre o hijo, a cualquier otro de sus ascendientes o descendientes o a su cónyuge o conviviente. Es un delito poco frecuente, siendo alrededor del 4 por ciento de los homicidios. El objetivo de esta revisión es caracterizar psiquiátricamente el parricidio, lo que se realiza principalmente en base a la literatura internacional. Se describen distintos perfiles parricidas según las características de la situación en que se comete el crimen. El perfil más frecuente sería el del adulto varón, joven, con patología psicótica descompensada asociada a consumo de drogas y alcohol. Un segundo perfil parricida estaría representado por adolescentes en tres situaciones: el joven gravemente maltratado, el joven gravemente enfermo mental, y el joven peligrosamente antisocial. Dar muerte a los hijos es también una forma de parricidio y existirían diferencias en los perfiles psiquiátricos de los hechores de neonaticidio, infanticidio, y filicidio. El femicidio es el homicidio cometido por hombres en contra de mujeres por razones de género, y legalmente constituye parricidio. El más frecuente es el femicidio íntimo, y estaría asociado a violencia previa y abuso de alcohol y drogas. El delito de parricidio, aunque sea de baja frecuencia en la población general, es un hecho relativamente mayor entre los pacientes psiquiátricos, siendo para el médico psiquiatra y los trabajadores de la salud mental de suma relevancia el conocimiento de este tema.

Clinical Features of Parricide in Patients with Schizophrenia / 신경정신의학

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to describe the demographic, clinical and offense characteristics of the patients with schizophrenia who committed parricide. This study also investigated the risk factors of parricide by comparing with characteristics of stranger killers to prevent the tragic offense. METHODS: The sample consisted of 88 schizophrenic patients who committed homicide, 59 of them committed parricide and 29 of them killed strangers. Medical chart review regarding demographic and clinical characteristics as well as offense characteristics was conducted. The information that was difficult to be obtained through chart review was acquired by direct interview. RESULTS: Parricide group had earlier age of onset, more conflicts with the victims, more violence history toward victims and more offense provoking events than stranger killing group. Parricide group showed higher rate of past treatment than that of stranger killing group. However drug compliance at the time of offense was low in both groups. Offense provoking events in the parricide group included blaming, threatening a forced hospitalization or medication toward patients. The most common psychiatric symptoms associated with homicide were threat/control override (TCO) symptoms, delusional perception, commanding auditory hallucination and especially with parricide, Capgras syndrome (CS). CONCLUSION: Interaction between psychotic symptoms such as TCO, CS and underlying emotion toward victims are likely to be associated with parricide. Mental health professionals are expected to play an important role in preventing this tragic offense by active history taking of the violence and effective management with active caregiver education/intervention of intrafamilial conflicts.