期刊名称：Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics
电子版ISSN：2237-261X
出版年度：2020
卷号：9
期号：2
页码：168-184
DOI：10.17063/bjfs9(2)y2020168
出版社：Instituto Paulista de Estudos Bioéticos e Jurídicos
摘要：Forensic psychiatry associates the study of mental illness with the law, allowing its compliance with legal and regulatory provisions, assisting in the characterization of imputability to the time of the illicit act.The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the type of epidemiological profile and the mental illness diagnosis of the patients that were submitted to a mental health examination at the Legal Medical Institute of Belo Horizonte (2014 to 2015), as well as criteria of imputability and criminal types more common among them.A total of 2,031 cases were analyzed, of which the majority of the individuals were male and presented a mean of 37.7 years of age and of 6.7 years of studies.And 33.1% of the cases were considered within psychic normality; 26.8% presented psychotiform disorder.Imputability was attributed to 691 individuals and the semi-imputability to 687.The capacity of understanding and determination was considered preserved ate 56.4% and 34.3%, respectively.The most common criminal types were rob / theft (30.7%), possession and drug trafficking (14.2%).Among the individuals with criteria of inimputability there was a higher proportion of men, singles, higher age average and psychotiform mental illness.The group with semi-imputability criteria had higher proportion of toxicological dependence and decreased capacity of determination.The data add important epidemiological and diagnostic information for forensic psychiatry that would serve to indicate the characteristics of criminogenesis and criminodynamics in order to develop strategies to prevent the involvement of mentally ill with illicit acts.
