Lapinlahti: Former mental hospital in Helsinki (Picture I) Kimmo Huosionmaa In this text, I will think mental institutes from the point of view of criminology. And here I must first say, that I drop away from the political prisoners and racial experiments. The thing, why asylums or mental institutes have been created, is that the persons, who are profiled as a maniac, would take to the place, where they would give provocation to talk about things, what they normally shame. This is one reason, why those places are so big taboo to mention. When we are thinking about the crimes, we must know, that even the worst actions, what man can get has an explanation. Sometimes people, who have made terrible crimes are playing mentally ill because that saved them from the death penalty. One of those things, what bought the death penalty was murder, but if the person would be under control of spirits, what meant mental illness, that person could save the life, and send to the asylum for r