Influence of psychoticism upon crime scene behavior of murderers

Abstract

In this work first was confirmed instrumental-expressive typology on the sample of 152 convicted murderers from Serbian prisons. Then, instrumental and expressive murderers were compared in relation to dimension of psychoticism. Theoretical framework for this research was Eysenck's assumptions about influence of personality traits upon criminal behavior. Redefined concept of psychoticism as indicator of personality integration with biological determination has emerged as important factor of crime scene behavior of murderers.

Na uzorku 152 ubice iz srpskih zatvora najpre je empirijski potvrđena podela ubistava na ekspresivna i instrumentalna. Ove dve grupe su potom bile upoređene u vezi sa dimenzijom psihoticizma. U teorijskom smislu istraživanje se oslanjalo na Eysenckove postavke o uticaju osobina ličnosti na kriminalno ponašanje. Redefinisani koncept psihoticizma kao pokazatelj integrisanosti ličnosti sa biološkim utemeljenjem pojavio se kao značajan činilac načina izvršenja ubistva.