Algunos aspectos criminológicos relacionados con los Homicidios Dolosos en Costa Rica

This article presents some psychosocial and juridical aspects of voluntarymanslaughters that occurred in Costa Rica during the 1998-1999 period. The study isbased on guilty verdicts given by the justice courts. The outcomes indicate that thereare no significant differences between manslaughter and m...

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Autor principal: Sáenz Rojas, Mario Alberto
Formato: Online
Lenguaje:spa
Publicado: Universidad de Costa Rica 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/51132
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Sumario:This article presents some psychosocial and juridical aspects of voluntarymanslaughters that occurred in Costa Rica during the 1998-1999 period. The study isbased on guilty verdicts given by the justice courts. The outcomes indicate that thereare no significant differences between manslaughter and murder; fire weapons werethe main way for committing murder; nearly one in four offenders had a criminalrecord, and in two thirds of the cases, the victim and the offender knew each other.