Abstract

KALINSKY, Beatriz. Legal institute for probation. Current conditions of its application in the Argentinian case. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2014, vol.56, n.1, pp.69-82. ISSN 1794-3108.

According to the Argentinian Criminal Enforcement Law 24660/96 in force as amended, the "parole" or "probation" period is the last phase of a guilty verdict when the two third parts of a judgment of conviction have elapsed in jail and certain requisites have been met in a positive way. The objective of this work is to show that releasing prisoners on parole is not only an administrative procedure where if some of the requirements are not complied with, the prisoner will go straight back to jail in order to complete the original sentence behind bars. Likewise, from an anthropological point of view, this period may be deemed to be a transition process where additional factors, apart from those mentioned in the scientific literature (like housing, work, family reunification, community attitudes) have to do with the need to reach full citizenship in an attempt aimed at reconfiguring a damaged identity. This is a qualitative research carried out at a northern province of Argentina's Patagonia using ethnographic methods, in-depth interviews and real life stories.

Keywords : Parole/probation; anthropology; post-delictual measures; convict rehabilitation; recidivism.

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