Abstract
This article contains a historical, legal and doctrinal study about the diminished criminal liabilityas an element of criminal culpability. It is exposed in the first section, the appearance of this figure until it was formally incorporated in legislation and in judicial proceedings. Then, the different approaches are examined in relation to the response to be provided by criminal law to cases in which it is shown that a person committed a crime, acting under a state of diminished criminal liability.Finally, it is proposed to eliminate this controversial concept of the theory of crime based on a redefinition of the terms criminal liability and non-imputability.
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