The incipient national organized crime and its executioners, the improvised hitmen

A criminal modality that is becoming increasingly important nowadays and has many victims is the contract killing or the use of hitmen. The situation is aggravated by the presence of a process of crime institutionalization. The Peruvian government has responded to this problem typifying the aforemen...

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Autor: Rodríguez Hurtado, Mario Pablo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Perú
Recursos:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/15586
Acesso em linha:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/themis/article/view/15586
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Criminal Law
contract killing
criminal policy
organized crime
criminalization
Derecho Penal
sicariato
política criminal
crimen organizado
tipificación de delitos
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Resumo:A criminal modality that is becoming increasingly important nowadays and has many victims is the contract killing or the use of hitmen. The situation is aggravated by the presence of a process of crime institutionalization. The Peruvian government has responded to this problem typifying the aforementioned crime in the Criminal Code under condemns with are becoming longer. Was this the best solution?In the present article, the author answers this question by analyzing the penal types of contract killing while making a critic of the national criminal policy, taking into account the existence of other criminal types and other possible solutions, to finally prove its futility.