Life and Private Property: A Sociological Inquiry about the Functioning of the Argentinean Criminal System

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https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v14n3.34275

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individual life, private property, murder, robbery, Argentinean criminal system

Abstract

This paper explores the way in which this criminal system structures the relation and hierarchies between two main values in contemporary societies: individual life and private property. To this end, we analyze how murders and attacks against property are punished. Firstly, we will consider the penalties established in the penal code. Later, since there is an important distance between what written law prohibits and the effective way in which the judiciary operates, we will analyze and compare sentences for murder and for robbery. 

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Martina Lassalle, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Professora de sociologia da Facultad de Ciencias Sociales da Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA, Argentina). É doutoranda em ciências sociais na UBA, com uma bolsa doutoral da mesma universidade, e licenciada em sociologia pela mesma instituição. Membro da equipe de investigação da Secretaria de Ciência e Técnica da UBA, chamada “Os usos sócio-políticos da violência: Para uma análise cultural da questão criminal na Argentina”.

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2021-09-16

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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2021): SET/OUT/NOV/DEZ

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