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Evaluación de la responsabilidad penal en Suiza: cambios y continuidad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

G. Niveau  and
E. Sozonets
G. Niveau
Affiliation:
Unidad de Psiquiatria Forense, Instituto Universitario de Medicina Legal, Avenue de Champel 9, 1211Ginebra 4, Suiza
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Resumen

Antecedentes:

No se conocen muy bien los factores que los expertos utilizan para evaluar la responsabilidad penal. En las publicaciones se mencionan ocasionalmente cambios en la importancia atribuida a algunos diagnósticos. El propósito de este estudio es identificar la existencia y la naturaleza de estas modificaciones.

Método:

Comparamos las características sociodemográficas, criminológicas y psiquiátricas de dos muestras de evaluaciones psiquiátricas llevadas a cabo en Ginebra, Suiza, en 1973-74 (N=75) y 1997-98 (N=94).

Resultados:

Los dos grupos de sujetos descritos por los informes de los expertos parecen ser bastante diferentes en varias características. Sin embargo, no se encontro que los expertos concluyeran en favor de responsabilidad disminuida en sus informes con una tasa significativamente diferente. La regresión logística muestra que el diagnóstico de trastorno de la personalidad es la única variable que influyo en los expertos de manera diferente para el período 1997-1998 comparado con el período 1973-1974.

Conclusion:

En Ginebra, los expertos psiquiátricos continúan atribuyendo todavía responsabilidad disminuida a los delincuentes que sufren psicosis o depresión. Sin embargo, la población que sufre evaluaciones psiquiátricas en la actualidad ha cambiado considerablemente.

Keywords

responsabilidad penalpsiquiatría forensealegato de enajenación mentaldelincuentespericiapsiquiátrica
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European Psychiatry (Ed. Española) , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , April 2002 , pp. 182 - 189
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2002

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