PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF PUNITIVE POPULISM IN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CRIMINAL REACTION TO CRIMINALITY

The purpose of this essay is to show the consequences generated by the issuance of laws creating or modifying criminal offenses, increasing penalties or establishing new more intense ones, without carrying out an adequate analysis of the necessary assumptions to define whether they will be effective and proportional to reduce the rates. of criminality. In recent years, it has been noted that legislative initiatives are based on particular political interests that do not respond to the need to establish policies that allow countering crime. Thus, it will be possible to warn that legislators resort to populist measures to confront crime, taking advantage of society's fear and need for protection, regardless of the fact that such measures are in many cases unconstitutional. In addition, Osome alternative solutions will be presented to help with the establishment of public policies that are effective in reducing crime rates in the country.