Keywords
social control
alternative measures to imprisonment.
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Abstract
This article is a critical analysis of inflationary criminal reforms set out by the neo-punitivism theory of politics for electioneering purposes. This theory has been irresponsibly disseminated by the media and tries to use criminal law as a political weapon of social control in every human relation and concept by increasing flexibility on the fundamental principles of fragmentary and subsidiary nature and ultima ratio. Additionally, as an interesting contraposition with the repressive reality described, we propose two new exceptions: alternative measures to imprisonment (new Argentinian Penal Code draft bill) and a court decision to declare unconstitutional the minimum legal time stated by the law for a crime due to the triviality in the encumbrance of the legally protected right.
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