O estado puerperal como excludente de culpabilidade do crime de infanticídio.

Abstract

This monograph consists of the study of consequences of Puerperal Condition in Illicit Infanticide Crime as manslaughter, typified in article 123 of Brazilian Penal Code described as the act of killing her own child during childbirth or soon after. Talks yet about the characteristics and peculiarities of Puerperal Condition, describing the types of psychiatric disorders, among them, the puerperal psychosis, that arises abruptly in the first weeks postpartum. In Puerperal Condition the mother does not control his actions, under the control of delusions and hallucinations, unable to distinguish the real from the imaginary, can eliminate your child's life without the bad conscience that is making , finding themselves unable on grounds of insanity. This being the crime committed since ancient times and its sanction imposed more banal to the most extravagant. The theme is the subject of numerous discussions for professionals in the health as of right, where it is examined the puerperal condition on the crime of infanticide as a possible cause of exclusionary of guilt in view of the unaccountability of the mother caused by mental illness and not having the understanding to separate legal from illegal , getting released from mother's penalty.