{"title":"Adulto mayor y cárcel: ¿cuestión humanitaria o cuestión de derechos?*","authors":"Francisco Maldonado Fuentes","doi":"10.4067/S0718-33992019000100001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl trabajo aborda los problemas que plantea el cumplimiento de condenas privativas de libertad por parte de adultos mayores. Se hace cargo del tratamiento que se ofrece fundamentalmente en el derecho comparado y de las problematicas que ofrece proponiendo una aproximacion basada en la necesidad de realizar una distincion fundamental, separando el analisis y resolucion de la situacion que enfrentan los condenados que padecen enfermedades cronicas o terminales; los que sufren los efectos de patologias que inciden de manera importante en su salud mental y la de quienes simplemente presentan las condiciones propias de un adulto mayor. Con ello se propone una caracterizacion especifica para cada supuesto que habilita a advertir problematicas y soluciones diversas, que se aleja del tradicional recurso a razones de caracter humanitario. Se aborda finalmente las particularidades que ofrece el escaso tratamiento que ha tenido la tematica en Chile (especialmente en el ambito legislativo) lo que lleva necesariamente a tratar las diferencias que supone el tratamiento de este tipo de temas en el contexto de crimenes de lesa humanidad. EnglishThe article addresses the problems observed in the process of serving custodial sentences by elder people, focusing mainly on the treatment offered in the comparative law, and the inconveniences it may cause to elderly. It proposes an approach based on the need of stating a fundamental difference by separating the analysis and resolution of the situation depending on the type of illness suffered by the convicted person. This division states three different categories; the ones diagnosed with chronic or terminal illnesses, the ones suffering the effects of a specific pathology which significantly impacts their mental health and the ones who simply endure the conditions of old age. The aim of this proposal is to specify the characteristics of each circumstance with the purpose of noticing possible problems and their effective solutions. Finally, the lack of discussion about the topic in Chile (specifically in the legislative field) is strongly criticized by this article with the objective of exposing the importance of addressing these differences to handle crimes against humanity.","PeriodicalId":38693,"journal":{"name":"Politica Criminal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Politica Criminal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-33992019000100001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolEl trabajo aborda los problemas que plantea el cumplimiento de condenas privativas de libertad por parte de adultos mayores. Se hace cargo del tratamiento que se ofrece fundamentalmente en el derecho comparado y de las problematicas que ofrece proponiendo una aproximacion basada en la necesidad de realizar una distincion fundamental, separando el analisis y resolucion de la situacion que enfrentan los condenados que padecen enfermedades cronicas o terminales; los que sufren los efectos de patologias que inciden de manera importante en su salud mental y la de quienes simplemente presentan las condiciones propias de un adulto mayor. Con ello se propone una caracterizacion especifica para cada supuesto que habilita a advertir problematicas y soluciones diversas, que se aleja del tradicional recurso a razones de caracter humanitario. Se aborda finalmente las particularidades que ofrece el escaso tratamiento que ha tenido la tematica en Chile (especialmente en el ambito legislativo) lo que lleva necesariamente a tratar las diferencias que supone el tratamiento de este tipo de temas en el contexto de crimenes de lesa humanidad. EnglishThe article addresses the problems observed in the process of serving custodial sentences by elder people, focusing mainly on the treatment offered in the comparative law, and the inconveniences it may cause to elderly. It proposes an approach based on the need of stating a fundamental difference by separating the analysis and resolution of the situation depending on the type of illness suffered by the convicted person. This division states three different categories; the ones diagnosed with chronic or terminal illnesses, the ones suffering the effects of a specific pathology which significantly impacts their mental health and the ones who simply endure the conditions of old age. The aim of this proposal is to specify the characteristics of each circumstance with the purpose of noticing possible problems and their effective solutions. Finally, the lack of discussion about the topic in Chile (specifically in the legislative field) is strongly criticized by this article with the objective of exposing the importance of addressing these differences to handle crimes against humanity.