Fallacy on the Severity of Penalties in Criminal Law

Abstract

The following analysis responds to the need of reflex ion imposed in the criminal law area for argentine judicial system, law-yers and operators, in order to establish the multiple causes that ge-nerate the present criminal index, which have been installing fear, in the argentine society, to become a victim of a crime, particularly vio-lent. It also discusses how much is misjudged the public opinion that attaches the situation to the penal law relaxation, indicating finally the multiple causes and approaches that give solution to the present state of things.

KEYWORDS: criminality index, insecurity, penal legislation refor-ms, penalty aggravation and legal figures, corruption

JEL CODE: K14, C61