Rearme punitivo en la moderna sociedad del riesgogarantismo versus utilitarismo, los casos paradigmáticos de la lucha frente al terrorismo y la criminalidad organizada

  1. Iglesias Río, Miguel Ángel
Revista:
Revista General de Derecho Penal

ISSN: 1698-1189

Año de publicación: 2012

Número: 17

Tipo: Artículo

Otras publicaciones en: Revista General de Derecho Penal

Resumen

Contemporary criminal law faces new and complex phenomenologies criminals, particularly those that encompass the broad spectrum of organized crime and international terrorism. However, under the pretext that the traditional criminal and procedural responses, aimed at key guarantees, are supposed to be ineffective, the current legislature, for electoral reasons, it folds to the insistent demands of public opinion to extend the tentacles of criminal law and to increase the penalties of contempt of certain fundamental principles and basic civil liberties, but on the other hand, all this serves to neutralize the alleged crime effectively.