¿Penas sin humillaciones? Límites al derecho penal derivados del respeto a la dignidad humana

El presente texto se propone analizar los límites a la intervención penal derivados del contenido constitucional de la dignidad humana, entendida como intangibilidad de integridad física y moral del individuo, no sin antes precisar, de forma muy breve, la función del principio de respeto a la dignidad humana en el derecho penal, en general, y la manera como las diferentes atribuciones que caracterizan este principio según su elaboración por parte de la Corte Constitucional se configuran como límites al poder penal del Estado. Para ello, se realiza un análisis de la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional usando herramientas de la dogmática constitucional y penal. El artículo propone que, a pesar de la diáspora jurisprudencial y la complejidad del concepto dignidad humana, es posiblederivar un contenido del mismo que sirva como limitación del derecho penal en el marco del Estado de derecho

The 'Joker' laugh: Social judgments towards affective deviants in a sample of young offenders with callous unemotional traits

[eng] We assessed negative bias in Colombian young offenders towards affective deviants (those who violate emotional norms). Postulating that affective deviants elicit an 'uncanny/creepy' feeling resembling that produced by psychopaths, we explored social judgments of affective deviants in individuals with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. 188 young offenders evaluated a target displaying congruent or incongruent affective displays in response to pictures eliciting positive/negative affect, depending on the condition. Affective deviants were rated as creepier and less trustworthy, and more likely to have bad moral character, than targets who displayed normative affect. Further, affective deviants who displayed positive affect in response to negative stimuli were rated as having worse moral character than those who displayed negative affect in response to positive stimuli. CU traits predicted lower trustworthiness judgments of targets in congruent conditions, but higher trustworthiness judgments of targets in incongruent conditions. CU traits also predicted higher desired social distance and creepiness judgments in congruent conditions. Creepiness ratings correlated with judgments of bad moral character, suggesting that this emotional response may be involved in moral evaluations of strangers. These findings indicate that deviant affective displays produce a variety of negative social judgments, with CU traits playing a role in these social cognitive heuristics