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2023.08.01 Department of Psychology News

[Faculty of Psychology] Comments from a professor specializing in criminal psychology were published in the Mainichi Shimbun following the judgment of the Keio Line arson and attempted murder case

On Halloween Day 2021, a defendant was sentenced to 23 years in prison for stabbing a woman in a train on the Keio Line in the form of a Joker and then spreading Zippo oil on the train and setting it on fire. The comment was published in the same newspaper.

Frustrated... Indiscriminate attack on the train, what both suspects have in common in court |

Two years ago, in a case in which passengers were indiscriminately attacked on trains on the Odakyu and Keio lines, the characteristics of indiscriminate mass murderers common to the two defendants are published in the Department of Psychology column..

[Faculty of Psychology] Seven Characteristics of Indiscriminate Mass Murderers from the Perspective of Criminal Psychology ―Reflecting on the Judgments of the Odakyu Line and Keio Line Incidents, in Which Oil Was Sprinkled, Fires Wounded, and Knifes Wielded―

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