O panorama da psicopatia no Brasil à luz do direito penal

Abstract

Psychopathy is present in all sectors of social life. It is extremely important that the legal professionals know how to identify these people, they feel no remorse or empathy for others and fail to internalize the rules. The difficulty of psychopaths to learn from the experience, make them more prone to recidivism than common criminals and demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the criminal policies. The criminal liability of the psychopath is still disagreement between the authors target the area of medicine and law, which makes pressing the study of psychopathy. This work aims to study the psychopath, the definition and characteristics of psychopathy in the interpretation of criminal law and doctrine. They will be differentiated mental illness of psychopathy to verify the relationship with recidivism. Subsequently, the criminal liability of the psychopath and the doubts arising from it will be studied. the applicability and the kinds of security measure to psychopaths considered semi-attributable and the conditions for its implementation will be addressed. Finally, suggestions for improvements will be presented in the approach and treatment of psychopaths.