PRISONERS OF APATHY AND DISEASE; ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE OF THE SERIAL KILLER

Abstract

The objective of the research was to address questions related to the biological predisposition of human beings to commit crimes and the impact of the legal model on criminal behavior. The case study responds to a methodological process supported by the inductive method, with a qualitative approach that allowed us to compare the case of the citizen of Pifo who has been classified as a serial killer; based on bibliographic sources that considers psychopathology in fatal crimes from a biological and psychological perspective. In the comparative process, the operation of the Ecuadorian penitentiary system and its rehabilitative function was analyzed with those convicted of violent crimes, which, although not all of them are identified as the previous one, could be associated with similar psychotic pathologies. Which subsequently led to interpreting the INEC figures on those sentenced for crimes of intentional homicide between 2018 and 2020. The aforementioned made it possible to describe the behavior of the aspects studied and their possible relationship with the mechanisms adopted by the rehabilitation system suggested by the country through coercive mechanisms. Leaving aside the mental illness that limits the powers of full consciousness to respect and protect one's own life and that of others. It is necessary to propose a strategy for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, that is, a model that overcomes punishment and shows empathy to rehabilitate them to the extent possible