Abstract

DANIEL CESANO, José. Tendencies in Criminal Policy in Argentina in Framework Criminal Policy Latin American: Criticism and suggestions from a comparative analyses. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2009, vol.42, n.126, pp.1281-1303. ISSN 2448-4873.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the scope of the expansive tendencies in criminal matters in Latin America and particularly in Argentina. With this aim, after outlining the phenomenon -from several theoretical perspectives- and summarising its characteristics in Latin America, we shall specify its distinctive features in our midst; as a way of sounding the main problems entailed in this legislative inflation -decidedly influenced by the multiplying effect of the mass media-needed to intuit possible criminal political strategies.

Keywords : punitivism; criminal expansion; criminal reforms; criminal policy; punitive attitudes.