HUMAN RIGHTS AND CRIMINAL DOGMATICS

Abstract

The advances aimed at the rationalization and humanization of the penal system decline when a period of symbolic criminal law occurs, such as that experienced in Argentina so far in the 21st century, which resulted in fifteen reforms of the substantive penal system in just over three years; and culminated in a criminal law’s expansion main role, between 2015 and 2019, in line with the neoliberal policy of the government at that time. Contrary to the constitutional reform carried out in Argentina in 1994, which incorporated the main Human Rights Treaties as the supreme law of the Nation, the penal system, fully considered, today appears to be more inhuman and more repressive than before.