Blum Austin W, Grant Jon E
Mr. Blum is a medical student at the Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Dr. Grant is a Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2017 Dec;45(4):464-471.
Certain behavioral addictions pose difficult and unresolved problems for the criminal justice system. These disorders are characterized by strong desire states and may be associated with illegal behaviors that are committed to support the addiction. In this article, we begin with a general account of criminal responsibility and provide the legally relevant phenomenology and cognitive features of behavioral addictions. We then discuss how the legal system has approached two behavioral addictions, gambling disorder and kleptomania, during criminal trials and at sentencing. The conclusion summarizes an approach to the adjudication of behavioral addiction-related criminal behavior.
某些行为成瘾给刑事司法系统带来了棘手且尚未解决的问题。这些障碍的特征是强烈的欲望状态，并且可能与为维持成瘾而实施的非法行为相关联。在本文中，我们首先对刑事责任进行一般性阐述，并提供行为成瘾在法律上相关的现象学和认知特征。然后，我们将讨论法律系统在刑事审判和量刑过程中是如何处理两种行为成瘾，即赌博障碍和盗窃癖的。结论部分总结了一种对与行为成瘾相关的犯罪行为进行裁决的方法。
