Un desarrollo preocupante: sobre una tendencia reciente en el control constitucional de leyes penales

Abstract

Se analiza críticamente la línea jurisprudencial del Tribunal Constitucional referida al otorgamiento de penas sustitutivas. El artículo critica el razonamiento de fondo vinculado a las dos líneas incompatibles de razonamiento generadas por el TC, así como el tipo de orientación que la evolución de la línea jurisprudencial expresa y, ante todo, sus consecuencias institucionales.

A developmental model of sentencing evolution: The emergence of the politics of probation in Chile

“…Although international readers might expect conservatives to show deference to tough‐on‐crime policy (Dolovich, 2017), and this had been the historical behaviour of the CC (Carroll & Tiede, 2011, 2012), the Court shifted towards strict control of sentencing schemes precisely around the time that the conservative majority arose in 2016 (Grez & Wilenmann, 2019). This has been by far the main area of work of the CC since then, as shown by Table 1.…”

“…Under these actions, a party requests the CC to command an ordinary court to restrain from applying a statutory provision deemed incompatible with the constitution. In a central premise for our analysis, the sentencing in action framework still persists unabated despite new laws restricting the applicability of probation enacted since 2014 because of inapplicability decisions by the CC (Grez & Wilenmann, 2019). The CC has impeded more than 4,000 applications of these new probation laws and the few empirical studies on sentencing undertaken after 2014 do not show changes in the practices and attitudes of criminal judges.…”