[Follow-up of adolescent homicide perpetrators committed in accordance with section 63 of the federal penal code: 4 case reports].

The longterm follow-up of four juvenile murderers is described, who had been examined at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the University of Heidelberg and were sent to psychiatric hospitals according to 63 StGB by the courts. These follow-ups are discussed in relation to the literature and some problems of this special group of mentally ill delinquents are pointed out.