BUS HIJACKING BY A PRE-SCHIZOPHRENIC - FROM A VIEWPOINT OF CRIMINAL ROMANCE

There are cases in which no clear symptoms of schizophrenia are observ ed in a person at the time of a crime but are diagnosed to have schizo phrenia after tile crime due to the appearance of typical symptoms. We present psychiatric evidence oi a patient who saw a bus hijacking inc ident oil TV during several years of isolation at home after graduatio n from junior high school, and was then determined to hijack a bus, an d carried out the crime 6 months later. The patient exhibited clear sy mptoms of schizophrenia 3 days after tile crime. This case of a crime committed before the appearance of clear symptoms of schizophrenia was evaluated from the viewpoint of verbrecherromantik or 'criminal roman ce'.