Socio-psychological and clinical characteristics of adolescents in Trans-Baikal krai who have committed crime acts (based on forensic psychiatric expertise)

One of the most acute problems in Trans-Baikal Krai is a high prevalence of criminal behavior among adolescents. Objective: to study socio-psychological and clinical characteristics of adolescents in Trans-Baikal Krai who have committed socially dangerous acts. We analyzed with continuous method on the basis of the Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after V.Kh. Kandinsky 869 resulutions of out-patient forensic psychiatric expertise in criminal cases of adolescents. It was established that most adolescents with criminal behavior had psychopathologically burdened heredity for alcoholism of parents, were brought up more often in one-parent, dysfunctional families with a low financial level, in most cases in the conditions of inadequate care with elements of aggression. Therefore, the delinquent behavior of the sub-experts could be viewed as provoked by unfavorable microsocial factors. The main portion among offenses committed by adolescents was made by property crimes - 78.3%; crimes against life and health - 11.1%, as well as crimes against sexual inviolability - 6.4%. In the process of outpatient forensic psychiatric examination, psychiatric disorders were identified in 88.7% of cases in which the structure was dominated by organic personality disorder, specific personality disorder, behavioral disorder and mental retardation.