DISTORTED CRIMINAL POLITICS AND MASS MEDIA

Authors

  • María Acale Sánchez Catedrática de Derecho penal Universidad de Cádiz

Keywords:

Criminal politics, social demands, mass media, parallel trials, public opinion, general prevention

Abstract

In this work, the latest trend of the Spanish legislation of basing punitive reforms on societal demands is analyzed. In this way, the role of the role of Criminology in the framework of a penal system designed to protect legal goods has been forgotten. Public opinion has a role that it is not capable of filling: it supplies the political legislator with guidelines that do not follow traditional law, but rather follow the economic demands of mass media. In this way, it endangers the coherence of legal order. This observation is not intended to criticise the positive role that mass media has when it acts impartially, objectively and professionally

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Published

2020-06-17

How to Cite

Acale Sánchez, M. (2020). DISTORTED CRIMINAL POLITICS AND MASS MEDIA. Teoría & Derecho. Revista De Pensamiento jurídico, (24), 135–148. Retrieved from https://ojs.tirant.com/index.php/teoria-y-derecho/article/view/406

Issue

No. 24 (2018): Garantías constitucionales, prensa y Derecho penal

Section

Debates