INTENTIONAL HOMICIDES IN COSTA RICA: SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION

This article summarizes social, demographic and other environmental characteristicsof voluntary manslaughters that occurred in Costa Rica during the 1998-1999period, based on guilty verdicts given by the justice courts. It is emphasized thatmost of the offenders and the victims were male, which is a...

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Autor: Sáenz Rojas, Mario Alberto
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2006
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UCR
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/51900
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/sociales/article/view/51900
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
MALES
VIOLENCE
COSTA RICA
LIMÓN
HOMICIDIOS DOLOSOS
MASCULINIDAD
VIOLENCIA
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Resumo:This article summarizes social, demographic and other environmental characteristicsof voluntary manslaughters that occurred in Costa Rica during the 1998-1999period, based on guilty verdicts given by the justice courts. It is emphasized thatmost of the offenders and the victims were male, which is associated with the linkbetween masculinity and violence, as well as some other characteristics of theoffenders. In addition, most of the crimes happened during the weekend, and it isdisturbing that Limon, the less populated province in the country, has the highestrates of voluntary manslaughter per one hundred thousand inhabitants.