[Medicolegal aspects of chronic alcoholism. Considerations on the behavior of 285 chronic alcoholics].

The Authors examined 285 male sex chronic alcoholics hopitalised in the Psychiatric Clinic of Parma University from 1969 to 1974. Clinical diagnosis, family anamnesis, degree of learning, civil status, beginning of abuse of alcoholics were considered. The Authors then, made a research at the Criminal Court records-office to verify how many of these alcoholic patients had committed crimes, what kinds, how many, related particularly to single subject's personality.