The purpose of this study was to investigate overkill in the Greek population from a criminological and victimological point of view and explore possible correlations of the phenomenon with socio-cultural or psychiatric factors. Overall, 158 autopsies of overkill victims were identified throughout the 15-year records of the national forensic laboratories throughout the northern Greek mainland. The pattern that has emerged from the statistical results of the present study on the victims of overkill within the Greek borders was generally in line with global statistics on homicide victims, but also presented differences. The phenomenon correlated more with homicides in the context of mental disorders (within schizophrenia spectrum), other crimes (such as burglary) as well as domestic violence. Overall, males outnumbered females both as victims (approximately threefold) and as perpetrators in overkill homicide cases, but regarding domestic violence, the sad majority of overkill victims stood for females murdered with excessive violence by male relatives. Close female relatives (especially mothers and grandmothers) were also victimized by psychiatrically ill offenders. Female perpetrators tended to attack male individuals with whom they shared a relationship (intimate partners). An important finding was the fact that less than half the offenders’ population with major mental disorders were diagnosed at the time of the offense. Overkill victims were found, on average, to be older than average homicide victims, being probably associated with the entailed difference in the physical strength ratio between the victim and the perpetrator.

本研究的目的是从犯罪学和受害者学的角度调查希腊人口的过度杀伤，并探讨这种现象与社会文化或精神因素之间可能存在的相关性。总体而言，在整个希腊北部大陆的国家法医实验室的 15 年记录中，确定了 158 例过度杀伤受害者的尸体解剖。本研究对希腊境内过度杀戮受害者的统计结果显示的模式与全球凶杀受害者统计数据基本一致，但也存在差异。这种现象更多地与精神障碍（精神分裂症范围内）、其他犯罪（如入室盗窃）以及家庭暴力背景下的凶杀案相关。全面的，在过度杀人的案件中，男性作为受害者（大约三倍）和肇事者的人数都超过了女性，但在家庭暴力方面，可悲的是，大多数过度杀人的受害者都支持被男性亲属过度暴力杀害的女性。近亲女性（尤其是母亲和祖母）也成为精神病罪犯的受害者。女性肇事者倾向于攻击与她们有共同关系的男性（亲密伴侣）。一个重要的发现是，在犯罪时被诊断出患有严重精神障碍的罪犯不到一半。平均而言，过度杀人的受害者被发现比普通凶杀受害者年长，这可能与受害者和肇事者之间的体力比的必然差异有关。