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This article sets out the need to integrate a transcultural approach in the setting of psychological evaluations ordered in penal procedures. This approach makes it possible to avoid three pitfalls with which the psychologist is confronted if he or she fails to integrate the etiological theories of evil (misfortune) or disaster that all subjects produce from their own culture: the dissolution of the subject’s singularity in the universality of law; the pitfall of the issue of credibility; and an overdiagnosis of psychosis in the penal sphere. The legal issue is understood here in its relationship with culture as Culture, and by way of the singular discourse that the subject produces on that relationship. Three clinical cases illustrate this method, which fosters the advent of a concrete universal in the penal sphere.