Padrón GCX, García PT

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The crime of homicide is one of the most serious and harmful to any society. It is the most extreme form of expression and resolution of social conflicts between people and groups. In the history of the human beings, the existence of mental disorders in the protagonists of social violence, especially murdering, has been a constant reality, in some cases magnified, although certain entities, such as the antisocial personality disorder, have been shown to have a statistical significance in those homicides that are more attached to patterns of instrumental or predatory violence.
Objective: To characterize psycho-pathologically the authors of homicides that occurred in Havana and were reported in the period 2011-2013.
Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study was conducted with all the files of the perpetrators prosecuted for the crime of homicide reported by the Department of Mental Perception of the Institute of Legal Medicine during the period 2011-2013.
Conclusions: There are psycho-pathological characteristics of homicides that classify them as with pathological personalities of antisocial and organic type, as well as harmful consumers of alcohol, which justifies the pattern of instrumental violence, interpersonal incitements together with a pattern of reactive violence, and behaviors unplanned, out of control, by the difficulties they present to restrain their impulses. In a few cases, they are carriers of true psychiatric illnesses.