El aumento de penas y los sujetos de control social en Colombia después de la Constitución de 1991

Abstract

This paper presents three interrelated arguments: (i) the disproportion of criminal punishment in Colombia have its origin in the State fight against subversive groups, specifically against las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo, which after 1990 massified kidnapping; (ii)that the endure and stabilization of punishment rise in Colombia criminal law is due to being move to criminal behaviors related to the armed conflict to ordinary criminal behaviors, specifically the violent thief and the sexual predator; and (iii) that the persistence of criminal disproportion is due to the rise of new subjects of social control, particularly the young and poor man, and the sexual predator. To support those arguments, the paper inquire the boundaries of 1980 Colombian criminal code to show how it started to enlarge in the nineteen year through the “estatuto antisecuestro”. Subsequently, it shows how this trend stabilized around the rise of the new subjects of social control that have legitimized the discourse of citizen (in)security.