The mental disturbances that may cause crime

Question 1

What are the mental disturbances that may cause crime

Answer 1

Mental deficiency
Schizophrenia
Compulsive neurosis
Psychopathic personality
Epilepsy
Alcoholism
Drug addiction

Question 2

It is a condition of arrested or incomplete development of the mind existing before the age of 18, whether arising from inherent causes or induced by disease or injury.

Answer 2

Mental deficiency

Question 3

They are prone to commit malicious damage to property
and unnatural sex offenses. They may commit violent crimes but definitely not crime
involving the use of mentality.

Answer 3

Mental deficiency

Question 4

This is sometimes called dementia praecox which is a form of psychosis
characterized by thinking disturbance and regression to a more relatively impaired and intellectual functions. The personal appearance is dilapidated and the patient is liable to
impulsive acts, destructive and may commit suicide.

Answer 4

Schizophrenia

Question 5

This is the uncontrollable or irresistible impulse to do something.
There may be an active desire to resist the irrational behavior but prevented by the
unconscious motives to act out of his difficulty or to suffer miserably in his fear.

Answer 5

Compulsive neurosis

Question 6

Forms of Compulsive Neurosis:

Answer 6

Pyromania
Homicidal compulsion
Kleptomania
Dipsomania

Question 7

– compulsive desire to set fire

Answer 7

Pyromania

Question 8

the irresistible urge to kill somebody

Answer 8

homicidal compulsion

Question 9

the compulsive desire to steal

Answer 9

kleptomania

Question 10

the compulsive desire to drink alcohol

Answer 10

dipsomania

Question 11

This is the most important cause of criminality among
youthful offenders and habitual criminals. It is characterized by infantile level of response,
lack of conscience, deficient feeling of affection to others and aggression to environment
and other people.

Answer 11

Psychopathic personality

Question 12

This is a condition characterized by convulsive seizures and a tendency to
mental deterioration.

Answer 12

Epilepsy

Question 13

This is the form of a vice causing mental disturbance. It is a conditions
wherein a person is under the influence of intoxicating liquor or alcohol.

Answer 13

Alcoholism

Question 14

This is another form of vice which causes strong mental disturbance.
It is the state of periodic or chronic intoxication product by the repeated consumption of
natural or synthetic drugs.

Answer 14

Drug addiction