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Criminals of Passion, When Crime is Based on Excessive Love

Fally Avriantara

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02 Feb 2024 · 14:35 02 February 2024 14:35 WIB 5 minutes reading time: 5 minutes 4 read

This article contains a brief explanation of the term 'criminals of passion' and examples based on Court Decisions.

Criminals of Passion, When Crime is Based on Excessive Love

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Crime in Criminal Law and Criminology Perspective
Criminals of Passion

Section 2/2: Criminals of Passion

Criminals of Passion

As has been stated at the beginning that criminology can be used to find out the reasons why someone commits a crime. In a biological perspective, criminology divides or classifies perpetrators of crime into 4 (four) types of groups, namely Born Criminal, Insane Criminal, Occasional Criminal, and Criminals of Passion.

Based on several references both in books and scientific journals, the understanding of criminals of passion is broadly speaking perpetrators of crimes or criminal acts who commit crimes or criminal acts because of anger or love. This condition will eventually turn off the reason of the perpetrator of the crime/criminal act and lead to the loss of the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

An example of a case that can be seen from the perspective of criminals of passion and quite attracted the attention of the wider community is the case of serial murder committed by Very Idham Henyansah alias Ryan Jombang. This case occurred in 2008 and was widely covered by mass media both print and electronic.

At that time it was known that the motive for the murder committed by Ryan against his victim was a feeling of jealousy in the framework of a homosexual relationship. The Depok District Court then sentenced Ryan to death in 2009.

Another case occurred in East Jakarta City. This murder crime was quite sadistic and involved more than one perpetrator of the crime.

A woman with the initials T and a man with the initials BS jointly committed the crime of murder against a female victim with the initials DAS. This criminal event occurred around 2013.

Initially, T and BS worked together to establish and run a 'soto' restaurant business located in BS's rented house. Subsequently, T and BS met and became acquainted with the victim DAS, who eventually helped manage and run the 'soto' restaurant business.

Initially, T, BS, and the victim DAS had a good relationship, marked by the three of them taking turns and working together to operate the 'soto' restaurant, which remained open 24 hours a day. BS, T, and the victim witness DAS basically had a fairly close relationship, and the relationship was even like that of a married couple.

The problem started when BS suspected the victim DAS of committing adultery. BS often found the victim DAS going out with other men, but the victim DAS refused to reveal the identity of the men. Motivated by jealousy, BS then committed violence against the victim DAS, which resulted in the loss of life.

BS, assisted by T, committed a series of criminal acts of violence that resulted in the loss of life of the victim DAS. The criminal acts of violence started with continuous beatings using wood to the head and kicking the ribs of the victim DAS.

After ensuring that the victim DAS was no longer breathing, the sadism of T and BS did not stop. The two perpetrators then mutilated the limbs of the victim DAS and put them in a plastic bag. The plastic bag containing the body parts of the victim DAS was then disposed of by T and BS on the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road, East Jakarta.

BS was finally sentenced to 14 years in prison by the East Jakarta District Court. As for T, based on the Decision of the Jakarta High Court Number: 380/PID/2013/PT.DKI dated December 12, 2013 jo. The Decision of the East Jakarta District Court Number: 558/Pid/B/2013/PN.Jkt.Tim dated September 26, 2013, also sentenced her to 14 years in prison because she was proven to have intentionally assisted in committing planned murder.