Pena concepto función y fines de la pena
| Author | Gianni Egidio Piva Torres/Roymar Ali Armas Graterol |
| Pages | 523-535 |
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| CAPÍTULO XXXII |
Pena concepto función
y fines de la pena
SUMARIO: 1. Concepto de pena; 2. Función y fines de la pena; 2.1. Función de la pena;
2.2. Fines de la pena; 3. Teorías que justifican la pena; 3.1. Teoría absoluta; 3.2. Teorías
Relativas; 3.3. Teorías de la prevención general; 3.4. Teoría de la prevención especial;
3.5. Teorías mixtas o de la unión; 4. Aplicación de las penas; 5. Modos de computar los
lapsos.
1. Concepto de pena
En sus líneas generales, la pena debe ser entendida como una conse-
cuencia –y la consecuencia jurídica, más precisamente– del delito, y son in-
finitas las decisiones que, en su dimensión material, se han formulado aco-
giendo el concepto de pena, no solo por el derecho penal, sino incluso en el
ámbito mucho más generalizado. A modo de punto de partida de la presente
exposición conviene recoger laque su día propusiera HOBBES384 «es un mal
necesario por la autoridad pública a quien ha hecho u omitido lo que esa misma
autoridad considera una trasgresión de la ley, a fin de que la voluntad de los hombres
este, por ello mismo, mejor dispuesta a la obediencia.»
384 THOMAS HOBBES, en ciertos textos antiguos Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, fue
un filósofo inglés considerado uno de los fundadores de la filosofía política moder-
na. Fuente Wikipedia.
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