Journal of Psychiatry

Victims and killers portrait in Lithuania of 2004â??2013

4^th Euro-Global Congress on Psychiatrists & Forensic Psychology

November 10-11, 2016 Alicante, Spain

Sigitas Chmieliauskas, Sigitas Laima, Gerda Andriuskeviciute, Dalius Banionis, Sandra Mazeikiene and Algimantas Jasulaitis

Vilnius University, Lithuania
State Forensic Medicine Service, Lithuania

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

Globally, men account for the majority of violent offenders �?? more than 90% of the prison population in various countries. According to The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, 80% of murdered victims are men. The world's most common homicide model: �??men kills men�?�. 1738 cases of murders were analyzed in Lithuania during the period from 2004 until 2013. 73% of murder victims were men and 84% of them were between 38�??52 years old. 35 cases from the investigated 1738 murders were minors (person under 18 years old) of which 18 were juvenile persons (under 14 years old) and 10 newborns and infants. More than half of the murders (57%) carried out in the urban areas. Intoxicated individuals accounted for 58% of killed people, including severe alcohol level set at 31%, average �?? 18%, and light �?? 9% of all investigated cases. 23% of killed women in Lithuania were murdered by their spouse or another familiar person. 68% of killed men were also murdered by the person they knew. There is the tendency in Lithuania (91%), and other European countries that a victim was familiar with the murderer. Reasons for more homicides in urban areas: economic inequality, the potential anonymity due to the large population and organized crime. A portrait of statistical killer in Lithuania: familiar with the victim (78%), alcohol or drug intoxicated (72%), with primary or secondary education (76%) male (91%).

Biography :

Sigitas Chmieliauskas has completed his Doctorate in Medicine (PhD Medicine). Since 2014, he is working as Assistant, Rezident Supervisor in the Department of Pathology, Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine at Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Since 2014, he served as Forensic Medicine Doctor – Expert at State Forensic Medicine Service, Vilnius, Lithuania. Since 2013, he is a member in the Lithuanian Society of Forensic Medical Doctors, Lithuanian Society of Clinical Toxicology and Lithuanian Society of Cardiology. He published articles with themes of physical and psychological violence, crimes against human life, and also articles concerning incidense of homicidal cases in Lithuania and other world countries.

Email: sigitas.chmieliauskas@mf.vu.lt