Psicopatología Clínica en población penitenciaria masculina que cumple condena por delito de asesinato en el Centro de Privación de Libertad, Azuay No. 1, Ecuador, en el año 2023

Abstract

Mental health as a public health problem should be studied from a multifactorial approach. Particularly in prisons, the study of mental health involves the approach of clinical psychopathology and criminology. Psychopathology is understood as the alteration at the mental level, which often leads the subject to commit a punishable conduct, a condition that is addressed by criminology, since this condition requires preventive and comprehensive treatments. With this consideration, this research aims to provide a description of clinical psychopathology in terms of symptoms in the male prison population serving a sentence for the crime of murder in the Centro de Privation de Libertad, Azuay No. 1, Ecuador in the year 2023. The study has a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental, cross-sectional design and descriptive scope. The study population consisted of 51 persons deprived of liberty. The instruments used for the collection of information are the bio-socio-demographic and legal form and the Personality Assessment Inventory. The main results show that the population studied is mostly young, single, with a high school education and from the urban area. The judicial characteristics that stand out are self-defense, alcohol consumption and presumption of innocence as the motive for the crime. Regarding the prevalence of clinical psychopathology, the following scales prevail: drug problems, paranoia and antisocial traits. The subscales with the highest percentages were egocentrism and hypervigilance.