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Security and guarantees: a risk-prevention oriented criminal law and criminal procedure

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  • María Inés Horvitz L. Abogada, Doctora en Derecho, Profesora asociada del Departamento de Ciencias Penales de la Facultad de Derecho y Directora del Centro de Estudios de la Justicia de la Universidad de Chile
No. 16 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i16.29500

Abstract

The article develops the current situation of tension between the growing demand to the State of public security by the fear of crime, and the corresponding weakening of individual rights, which is resolved through legal institutions legitimacy performative-oriented to criminal risk prevention. Based on this premise, the paper explores the reasons for the phenomenon in Chile, which appears to exhibit relatively reasonable crime figures but on the other hand, shows the highest rates of incarceration in the region. Similar experiences in other countries of our cultural environment are discussed so as the ways in which this problem has been addressed. It is found that the practice of criminal procedures and prison are the best indicators for the verification of an "efficient" punitive practice, which seriously endangers the fundamental human rights.    

Keywords:

public security, criminal and procedural guarantees, efficientistic criminal-law, amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, bargaining in criminal proceedings

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Horvitz L., M. I. (2012). Security and guarantees: a risk-prevention oriented criminal law and criminal procedure. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (16), pp. 99–118. https://doi.org/10.5354/rej.v0i16.29500
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Revista de Estudios de la Justicia
Facultad de Derecho
Universidad de Chile
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