Depuración y descriminalización

Abstract

The article discusses the phenomenon of inflation in criminal law and calls for the introduction of purification and decriminalization processes aimed at adjusting penal codes and areas of intervention in criminal law. In this context, he affirms that in scientific activity there is today a certain disposition to reform, but this does not have an appreciable echo either in legal policy or in the population. The article shows that new reflections on the role of criminal law both in the present and in the future are missed in criminal policy. The author claims the importance of seriously considering extra-penal regulatory mechanisms in order to overcome the inflationary phenomenon. For this, it considers three levels of analysis that, at the same time, are considered as starting points with a view to determining the areas of purification, decriminalization and substitution of over-criminalized behaviors.