%0 Journal Article %T La pericia medico-legal en materia penal juvenil %A Ronald Salazar Murillo %J Medicina Legal de Costa Rica %D 1999 %I Asociaci車n Costarricense de Medicina Forense %X La reforma reci谷n ocurrida en materia penal juvenil en Costa Rica reconoce al menor su personalidad jur{idica, le hace justicia, le otorga responsabilidad por sus acciones, para lo cual se ha dise ado un Sistema Penal Juvenil de fin pedag車gico, educativo y formativo delmenor infractor y por ello puede ser objeto de peritaci車n m谷dicolegal, pericias f赤sicas sobre su cuerpo y ex芍menes psicosociales. Interesa en la pericia f{isica establecer laedad del menor, especialmente en un pa赤s de alta inmigraci車n indocumentada comoel nuestro donde diferencias de tan solo un mes pueden producir la aplicaci車n o no de la Ley. Toda pericia debe respeta el pudor, evitar la revictimizaci車n y ser realizada por peritos forenses deseablemente. Es de inter谷s tambi谷n la constataci車n de la capacidad de culpabilidad, el grado de desarrollo y responsabiliadad de dirigir sus acciones e ilustrar al Juez y a las partes aacerca de las eventuales sanciones a imponer. The new reformation made in the Costa Rican Juvenile Law recognizes the legal personality of the minor, it makes him justice and gives him more responsability for his actions .For all these it has been design a Juvenile Law System with pedagogic, educative and formative ends for the minor transgressor , therefore it can be the object of medico-legal expertize, physical aspects like his body, his tests and psicoanalisis. The porpouse of physical expertize is to establish the age of the minor specially in a high undocumented migration country like ours, where differences of only a months can produce the aplication or not of the law. All the expertizes must respect the dignity, avoid the victimazation once again and be done by forensic experts by their own will. It is also important in medico-legal expertize the constation of capacity of guiltiness, the degree of development and responsability to direct their actions , and ilustrate to the judge and the parties, about the eventuals sanctions to impone. %K Infractor %K ni ez %K justicia %K pericia %K m谷dico forense %K culpabilidad %K sanciones %K manipulaci車n %K credibilidad %K prohibici車n %K exploraci車n %K transgressor %K childhood %K expertize %K coronary %K guiltiness %K sanctions %K manipulation %K credibility %K prohibition %K exploration %U http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1409-00151999000200014