Opiniowanie sądowo-psychologiczne skazanych odbywających karę dożywotniego pozbawienia wolności
Forensic psychological evaluation of life-term prisoners

Author(s): Maria Gordon
Subject(s): Criminal Law
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: forensic psychological evaluation; sanity; personality; motivation
Summary/Abstract: The study contains data obtained from the analysis of 43 forensic psychological evaluations of the sentenced to life imprisonment, which were carried out in 2008-2018. The material was gathered during the research conducted by the academic staff of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Policy of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Resocialization at Warsaw University and the Research Group under the direction of Professor Andrzej Rzepliński. The analysis concerns the compliance of the evaluations with the standards of forensic psychological evaluation of homicide offenders and continues the research on 102 forensic psychological evaluations, whose results were published in 2017 in the book ["Life imprisonment, the perpetrator, his crime and punishment"] "Dożywotnie pozbawienie wolności, zabójca, jego zbrodnia i kara" (red. A. Rzepliński, M. Ejchart-Dubois i M. Niełaczna). The obtained results show positive changes, mainly in the diagnosis of intellectual ability and character structure of the perpetrators. However, psychologists still do not see the need for referring to group influence on the perpetrators who work in groups and, what is crucial, do not diagnose motivational processes of the subjects. Thus, they do not provide the courts with information useful for establishing the responsibility of the perpetrators of violent crimes facing life imprisonment.

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