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Do public officers need greater autonomy when planning penal policies? A brief critical and Latin American reading of the concept of Penal State in the work of David Garland

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No. 31 (2019): Segundo semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4735.2019.54284

Abstract

The work of the Anglo-Saxon criminologist and sociologist, David Garland, is undoubtedly internationally recognized for his study of penal policies in contemporary societies. Particularly, Garland began writing about penal welfarism and the crisis of the welfare state, to currently devote himself to the study of new control devices, new demagogic practices exercised by electoral candidates, and the degree of punitivism of public officers under the concept of Penal State arguing that the greater autonomy from society and elected representatives they have, the less punitive the action of the State itself will be. Regarding this, in this work we will have the intention of demonstrating that, from a Latin American reading of the behavior of the officers who administer the penal policies starting from the case of Argentina, his thesis that greater autonomy makes less punitivism does not reach all the contexts.

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David Garland, Penal State, Argentina, punitivism, criminology, penal policies.

Author Biography

Juan Carlos Ruas, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) e Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales (INECIP)

Estudiante avanzado de Derecho (UBA). Investigador del Instituto de Estudios Comparados en Ciencias Penales y Sociales (INECIP), y de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) bajo la dirección de Diego Zysman.

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Ruas, J. C. (2019). Do public officers need greater autonomy when planning penal policies? A brief critical and Latin American reading of the concept of Penal State in the work of David Garland. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (31), 45–66. https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4735.2019.54284
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