Abstract
The person considered as unimputable is acquitted for not understanding the illicit character of his act, although, for security reasons, he is compulsorily hospitalized at a custody and psychiatric treatment hospital (CPTH), which is an institution belonging to the penitentiary system. It is created then the ambiguous figure of the crazy offender, either criminal or mentally ill, who is rarely seen or addressed in discussions and actions in health and law areas. Even less accepted is going to be the person who endangers his parents' lives: the so-called parricide. Starting from theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Derrida, this study develops discourses and practices that focus on issues of insanity, offense and parricide, and also, about the establishment of the CPTH as containment and referral modality for unimputable people. Accordingly, there will be presented some discussions regarding what people classified as crazy, offenders and parricides who are hospitalized at the CPTH have to say.
Keywords:
parricide; crazy offender; custody hospital