[MURDER STEMMING FROM INSANITY: DEMOGRAPHIC, CRIMINAL, PSYCHIATRIC AND FORENSIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERPETRATORS].

Introduction: Violence among individuals with mental disorders and murder while in a psychotic state have been studied extensively worldwide.

Aims: To examine the socio-demographic, psychiatric, criminal, forensic and other characteristics of people who committed murder in Israel and were not prosecuted for reasons of insanity. This is the largest such study to date conducted in Israel.

Guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity? a comparative study of murderers referred for psychiatric examination by court order.

Background: Some murders are committed under the influence of a psychotic state resulting from a mental disorder, mainly schizophrenia. According to the law in many countries, people with mental disorders do not have criminal responsibility. They are defined as not guilty due to insanity (insanity defense) and therefore cannot be punished.

Collaborative remembering of emotional events: the case of Rabin's assassination.

Individual and collaborative remembering of the assassination of Israel's Prime Minister, Itzhak Rabin, were compared. In line with previous laboratory findings on memory of neutral stimuli, it was hypothesised that collaborative remembering (three individuals reaching a common response) and nominal remembering (three individual responses pooled together) of the assassination would be more accurate than individual remembering. A total of 146 participants responded (115 individually and 120 in groups of three) to open-ended and multiple-choice questionnaires (among them, 89 responded twice with a week of intertest interval) about Rabin's assassination and the events that preceded and followed it.