Uso bélico de las normas penales en Colombia (1962-1980)

Arma estatal para derrotar al enemigo

Bibliographic Data

ID21870341
AuthorsLuis Carlos Arbeláez Villegas (0000-0003-4986-5729), Luis Carlos Villegas (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue18
Pages36-58
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnalecta política (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2027-7458 • E-ISSN: 2390-0067
PublisherUniversidad Pontificia Bolivariana (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.18566/apolit.v10n18.a03
OpenAlexW3049436411
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited8

The present text addresses the issue of the use of criminal laws as a weapon to restore order and to combat an imprecise and variable enemy, specifically during the period 1962-1980. During this period, the enemy changes from being the liberal atheist to the communist guerrilla man. The issuing of the Penal Code of 1980 ultimately determines the preference for punishment in the history of Colombia as the most qualified answer to the issue of violence to achieve “national salvation”, or simply to recover or maintain the institutional and social order. Possibly, the option of political power through the penal solution is a simple and irrational alternative or, in any case, the option for the war use of the penal norms that, from the beginning, evaded any expert advice. Therefore, this article investigates the value of the Comisión Investigadora de las Causas y Situaciones Presentes de la Violencia (Investigative commission for the causes and present state of violence), whose diagnose of the use of the Penal Code was valid during such period

Adversary · Commission · Criminal Code · Criminal law · Economics · Penal code · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Criminal Justice and Penology · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Mathematics · Psychology

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