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The diminished criminal liability: a problema category of criminal law

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  • Frank Harbottle Quirós Universidad de Costa Rica
No. 25 (2016): Segundo semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i25.44601

Abstract

This article contains a historical, legal and doctrinal study about the diminished criminal liabilityas an element of criminal culpability. It is exposed in the first section, the appearance of this figure until it was formally incorporated in legislation and in judicial proceedings. Then, the different approaches are examined in relation to the response to be provided by criminal law to cases in which it is shown that a person committed a crime, acting under a state of diminished criminal liability.Finally, it is proposed to eliminate this controversial concept of the theory of crime based on a redefinition of the terms criminal liability and non-imputability.

Keywords:

criminal law, liability, diminished criminal liability, non-imputability, criminal response.

Author Biography

Frank Harbottle Quirós, Universidad de Costa Rica

Abogado. Licenciado en Derecho con graduación de honor de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Máster en Criminología de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia. Especialista en Derechos Fundamentales y Garantías Constitucionales en el Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, España. Diploma en Ciencias Criminales y Dogmática Penal Alemana, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Alemania. Defensor Público, actualmente Letrado de la Sala de Casación Penal de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica. Profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Docente del Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas de Costa Rica. Correo electrónico: frank.harbottlequiros@ucr.ac.cr.

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Harbottle Quirós, F. (2016). The diminished criminal liability: a problema category of criminal law. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (25), pp. 33–50. https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i25.44601
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