La política criminal contemporánea: Influencia en Chile del discurso de la ley y el orden

the present article aims at answering some questions related to contemporary criminal justice policy. one of them seeks to determine whether the penal control policies established in chile during the last two decades, could be classified as punitive; while the second one tries to answer whether the explanations given by some compared criminological visions to justify the dramatic changes observed in the field of crime control in the past decades, are useful to understand the changes observed in chile, or if there are other explanations of a local character that should also be considered. in order to do research, in relation to the first objective, the article reviews briefly the development of the criminological and the penal policies of this country, during the xx century until the past decade; while for the second one, some renowned theories in the academic field are discussed to explain the changes in criminal justice policies, while it analyses their pertinence in order to explain our reality.