Some aspects of the relationship between crime and mental abnormalities

This article considers that the high level of development of mental anomalies in criminal persons is based not only on the criteria of sanity or insanity, but also on social and psychological factors. In particular, it is assumed that mental anomalies are disorders of mental activity that do not exclude sanity and capacity, but due to their psychotic nature, affect the personal changes of the subject, causing his deviant and delinquent behavior.