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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica

On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015

Abstract

ALVAREZ UMANA, Silvia Vanessa; SOTO CERDAS, Jahaira Vanessa; QUIROS QUIROS, Víctor Daniel  and  GONZALEZ SAENZ, Marcela. Inimputabilidad por trastornos mentales en el sistema legal. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.1, pp.79-84. ISSN 2215-5287.

Costa Rica’s penal code allows the possibility of exempting from criminal responsibility to individuals who have a mental disorder at the time of the criminal act. Forensic psychiatry aims to determine the degree of accountability of every person who is presumed will be affected by mental illness. The intervention is objective and this is achieved through the interview and mental exam. At the examination, the professional has to evaluate consciousness, lucidity, reasoning, judgment and impulsiveness. There are certain diseases that are excluded from total or partial criminal liability as different variables of schizophrenia, paranoia, delirium and epilepsy. In addition, referring to transient mental disorder (TMD), it occurs when the course of the alteration involves a recovery state of the mental faculties and the person can return to a normal mental condition.

Keywords : accountability; civil capacity; criminal responsibility; criminal; mental illness; transient mental disorder; expertise..

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