Abstract

MEBARAK-CHAMS, Moisés; QUIROZ-MOLINARES, Nathalia  and  JIMENEZ-GOMEZ, Fernando. Evaluation of the criminal liability in a sample of inmates in Barranquilla, Colombia with the R-CRAS. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2018, vol.60, n.3, pp.195-204. ISSN 1794-3108.

Criminal responsibility is a concept under consideration in the field of forensic psychology. It has been defined as the cognitive capacity of a person to appreciate the nature of unfairness of his act. In Latin America, and more specifically in Colombia, it has not been widely studied and there is little literature on the instruments that allow it to be evaluated. This study aims to determine the criminal responsibility of 154 Colombian homicides, using the R-CRAS instrument of Rogers (1986) which has been adapted in Colombia by Mebarak and Jiménez (2010), in order to broaden this line of research. It was found that the most of the of inmates recognize their participation, guilt and implications in the events related to the crime for which they are being held, there is a percentage (19,8%) of them who have not understood the illicitness of their act yet. Also, a lot of information required to develop a comprehensive evaluation was not provided by the prison, leaving a substantial gap. Faced with this situation, there is a need for greater forensic psychological intervention in prisons and, above all, the development of evaluation instruments that allow a better approach to this problem. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Keywords : Homicide; responsibility derived from the crime; clinical evaluation; inmates; prison.

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