Homicide and Punishment in Forensic Psychiatry: Review

Abstract

"Right to five" is the prerequisite for benefiting of all other rights and liberties. The crime to kill someone intentionally can be defined as to end someones life. deliberately. Killing someone is one of the material crimes. "Killing someone" crime comprises legal, material, moral components and being against the law. Terms like filicide, parricide, patricide, matricide, fratricide and infanticide are Used according to the relations between people in the concept of homicide Punishment is the social defence against criminal danger. In addition, it has rehabilitative features. The laws are prepared according to social belief's and concerns with the consideration to protect the community given priority. The psychiatric patients' probability of commiting crime can increase in certain circumstances. With appropriate conditions and treatment, the incidence of crime committed by psychiatric patients can be decreased. The legists and psychiatrists should come to a consensus On terminology, law and applications.