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Opinión Jurídica

Print version ISSN 1692-2530On-line version ISSN 2248-4078

Abstract

GOMEZ FRANCISCO, Taeli Raquel. Criticism to the Punitive System Criticism: Towards a Meta-Criticism. Opin. jurid. [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.21, pp.153-168. ISSN 1692-2530.

When we critically think of criminal law or the punitive system as a whole, no attention is paid to the way it is done (criticizing in itself). Criticism, as all other fields of knowledge, is determined by culture and epistemological changes which affect explanatory models -as stated by the theory of crime. The problem arises when a critical knowledge is kept based on a classic ideal of rationality commonly used to divide, to take out of context, and, at the end, to simplify, which finally results in challenging its initial purpose. The critical activity in itself becomes framed in the social control it criticizes. For this reason, we do not pretend to methodologically develop a controversy but taking a look to the totalizing movement.

Keywords : Complexity; epistemology; punitive system; criticism; meta-criticism.

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