中文摘要：

近年，台灣乃至國際之老年人口逐漸增加，相關照護議題之研究刻不容緩。除此之外，因生理、心理所致之失能，而待他人協助生活之長照需求亦亟需重視。其中，照顧者因不堪長期照護壓力，以致將其所照顧之至親所殺害，或求同死，或求解脫，凡此人倫悲劇之上演層出不窮。此非僅止於社會層面之問題，亦涵蓋刑法之審判、量刑等論罪爭議。執此，本文擬以刑法上之期待可能性作為切入之突破口，跨科際連結此諸社會、醫學與法律之殺人事件議題。
期待可能性乃規範責任論下有責性之主要內涵之一，然而其自被提出至今，由於不甚明確而過於抽象之本質，使實務上之運用格外保守。本研究首先於理論層面爬梳期待可能性於刑法應用上的概念，其次嘗試建構出操作上相對具體的模型，並以台灣近年與日俱增的照顧關係演變為殺人事件之議題為橋梁，連結起期待可能性之理論與實務。
藉由完整蒐集、剖析台灣之照顧者殺人事件相關判決，歸納出該事件之相似特徵，及量刑事由質與量的比較，並佐以相關醫學領域、社會科學領域之實證研究，分析篩檢出台灣與各國照顧者殺人事件之成因脈絡，結論上本文認為至少就此等事件而言，於綜合考量行為人個人生心理，與社會文化與環境影響等因子後，或有可能於部分情況中得致期待可能性顯著降低之判斷，從而更完整地評價行為之面貌，於現行法下得出更能符合罪刑相當原則之量刑結果。

英文摘要：

In recent years, the elderly population has gradually increased not only in Taiwan but also in the world. Besides, the need for long-term care caused by physical or psychological reasons has risen sharply. Among them, caregivers withstand great pressure, and may thus commit homicide, even though the victim were there spouse, parents, children or relatives. This events are not merely involves social and medical issues, but more relate to criminology problems like measurement of penalty and responsibility.
In view of this, this thesis intends to link across the interdisciplinary issue by Reasonableness(Zumutbarkeit) which is one of the main concept under the normative responsibility theory. However, due to its uncertainty, the application of Judicial trial practice is rare. Firstly, this research discusses Reasonableness at the theoretical level. Secondly, we attempt to construct a relatively specific model of Reasonableness for operational application. Next, we explore the determiner and factor of homicide by caregivers from the social and medical perspective. Finally, we gathered and analyze the events of homicide by caregivers via ‘’Law and Regulations Retrieving System’’ of Judicial Yuan.
Through the above work, this research arrive at a conclusion that the judge may take lack of Reasonableness as a reason to mitigative responsibility under specific conditions in these events. And since there is no regulations which can totally correspond to the concept of Reasonableness on current law, it’s still necessary to recommend Reasonableness to completely take all the factors of actor into consideration when judging the criminal liability.

文章連結：

https://hdl.handle.net/11296/4nt258

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