Abstract: Journal of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry Research

Abstract:
Personality change begins in adolescence and continues into the eighth decade. We are not the same person all our lives. Life imprisonment after twenty years is penalizing a person who no longer has the same personality who contributed to the execution of the crime! The punitive effect of the penalty no longer has grounds for incarceration! The cruelty of life imprisonment is similar to the death penalty, or even greater! In life imprisonment the convicted dies for life and only lives for death! If justice condemns cruelty, it is not consistent with its principles, by instituting a cruel penalty, such as life imprisonment, Justice is legitimizing cruelty! Maybe in the future, delinquents will begin to be considered as patients with epigenetic multifactorial complexes, influencing their criminal behavior. Instead of prison, they need treatment with new psychotropic drugs and psychotherapy