%0 Journal Article
%T L¡¯expertise m¨¦dico-l¨¦gale face aux perversions : instrument ou argument de la justice ? The Medico-Legal Expert on Perversion: Instrument or Argument?
%A Gilles Trimaille
%J Droit et Cultures
%D 2011
%I L¡¯Harmattan
%X L¡¯expertise m¨¦dico-l¨¦gale n¡¯est pas une cr¨¦ation du XIXe si¨¨cle mais l¡¯application du Code p¨¦nal napol¨¦onien de 1810 va profond¨¦ment modifier la place des experts dans le d¨¦bat judiciaire. Face ¨¤ certains comportements ¨¦tranges, les juges seront amen¨¦s ¨¤ solliciter de plus en plus fr¨¦quemment les experts psychiatres afin de d¨¦terminer le niveau de responsabilit¨¦ imputable aux auteurs de crimes ou d¨¦lits. Dans le domaine sp¨¦cifique des infractions sexuelles, il reviendra aux psychiatres de d¨¦terminer la limite entre la perversit¨¦ et la perversion, le partage entre la sanction et le soin. Malgr¨¦ un souci croissant de scientificit¨¦ pr¨¦sent dans les ¨¦tudes m¨¦dicales consacr¨¦es aux perversions sexuelles, les experts psychiatres du XIXe si¨¨cle n¡¯arriveront pas toujours ¨¤ se d¨¦prendre des valeurs politiques et morales dominantes de leur temps. Medico-legal expertise was not a creation of the 19th century but application of the Napoleonic Criminal Code of 1810 profoundly changed the role of experts in judicial proceedings. Faced with certain strange behaviors, judges were increasingly led to solicit psychiatric experts so as to determine the level of responsibility attributable to those accused of crimes or misdemeanors. In the specific domain of sexual offenses, it fell to psychiatrists to determine the border between perversity and perversion, and the distinction between sanction and care.  In spite of growing concern with the scientific character of medical studies devoted to sexual perversions, psychiatric experts of the 19th century did not always succeed in separating themselves from the dominant political and moral values of their times.
%K psychiatrie
%K Code p¨¦nal
%K circonstances att¨¦nuantes
%K responsabilit¨¦ p¨¦nale
%K expertise m¨¦dico-l¨¦gale
%K perversions sexuelles
%K normes
%K moralit¨¦
%K Psychiatry
%K Penal Code
%K Extenuating Circumstances
%K Penal Responsibility
%K Forensic Expertise
%K Sexual Perversions
%K Norms
%K Morality
%U http://droitcultures.revues.org/2270