Resumen

SARMIENTO E., Juan Pablo; BULA, Enith Carolina  y  MARINO M., Carolina. Criminal populism in Colombia: Proposal for an unfinished discussion. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2019, vol.52, n.155, pp.1047-1079.  Epub 28-Feb-2021. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2019.155.14956.

This paper argues that criminal populism has been interpreted and characterized in many ways, but no proposals have been made to establish a “threshold” to define when a criminal reform is legitimate and necessary, or when it is populist or reactionary. This paper proposes a model applied to penal reforms that could be considered populist, and thus, offer a test that allows to take a step towards the theory of criminal populism.

Palabras llave : Criminal populism; legal fetishism; symbolic efficacy of law; criminal law of exception.