A culpabilidade do psicopata homicida e a aplicabilidade da sanção penal

Abstract

This work consists of examining forms of applicability and classification of the psychopath in the criminal legal scope, that is, in our Brazilian Criminal Law, the psychopath is classified as being semi-imputable, claiming that the carrier has a mental disorder or incomplete or delayed mental development that makes the individual partially incapable of understanding the illicit nature of the act or of determining himself in accordance with such understanding, as provided for in the sole paragraph of article 26 of the Penal Code. Concepts of psychopathy were explored in the general scope, thus outlining its characteristics and behaviors in order to have a broader view of who the homicidal psychopath would be (antisocial personality disorder), and very succinct concepts regarding the serial killer, since only the Borderline Serial Killer type is what interests us in this work, in order to visualize all the cruelty exposed and the coldness with which this subject deals, we identified through real cases of serial killers most famous in Brazil.