Resumen

URIBE MEDRANO, Sonia Patricia. Violencia doméstica: estudio comparativo de casuística en la Unidad Médico Legal de Cartago, 1996 - 2000. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2001, vol.18, n.2, pp.28-33. ISSN 2215-5287.

In this essay we study 6099  peritations made in Legal Medicine Unity of Cartago, from 1996 to 2000, where 723 cases belong to Domestic Violence, with a great difference of 5.5 to 1, female/male. 93% of the injuries got handicaps for 10 days or less.

Palabras clave : Domestic Violence; home; agression; daily  violence.