Obsession with an Idea as a Motive for Criminal Behaviour

Abstract

The article is devoted to the motive, which is yet to be distinguished and studied by the domestic scientific literature. This is largely due to the fact that the domestic criminology has not paid enough attention to the crimes caused by totalitarian regimes (with the exception of the monograph by V. N. Kudryavtsev and A. I. Trusov "Political Justice in the USSR", 2002) and by the church. The article consistently explores the concept of obsession with an idea, names the types of obsession that will be explored in this article in connection with the religious belief practice, totalitarian dictatorships establishement, fanatical football fans. The author provides extensive data on the atrocities of the Catholic Church, the role of obsession in establishing a new (totalitarian) regime and maintaining the power. The article stresses the role of the crowd, and therefore justifies its division into crowd-flock and a crowd as a certain social strata. The obsessed stimulate the crowd and at the same time identify fanatics willing to fulfill any orders including the bloodiest ones The author provides necessary arguments