Transtorno de personalidade antissocial e suas consequências jurídico-penais

Abstract

The antisocial personality disorder is a malformation of personality, which affects several areas of the individual's life, characterized by a pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, failure to conform to social norms. Therefore, by the ASPD own characteristics, such individuals may end up getting involved in crimes and misdemeanors, entering in the penal system. On the other hand, to the Criminal Law, those persons are considered with diminished guilt, because they present a disturbance of mental health, under the only paragraph of Article 26 of the Criminal Code. And, today, are applied to these individuals the imprisonment with mandatory reduction or security measure. So, the present study, on the premise that personality disorder is a matter to be treated in medical-psychiatric health, seeks to examine whether the application of security measure was efective in the selected cases and in what measure there was this clinical improvement, and its impact on family and social environment. However, the bibliographic and empirical findings lead to the conclusion that, at present, there is no effective treatment for these individuals to justify their stay in custody hospitals of treatment, in accordance with art. 98 of the Penal Code. Thus, from this study, we propose the discussion to seek new criminal and treatment alternatives for patients of personality disorder.