A política criminal do Uruguai adotada em ´´la era progresista`` (2005 – 2019)

Abstract

This monograph focuses on the debate between criminologies against political criminal policy adopted by Frente Ampla during the fifteen years he was in the government of Uruguay. For this, a descriptive qualitative research was carried out, with the collection of data, including document analysis and literature review. From there, it was sought identify the political conditions of this arrival of the left to power, within the structure of the Uruguayan political system. With this, the main changes, alterations and legislative innovations that directly implied a new criminal policy, comparing the ideological discourse in which the Frente Ampla was formed, as well as its approaches and departures, with critical criminology, in view of what has been truly applied in practice. Finally, the work sought to elucidate points considered positive and negative in these new measures, trying to understand what could have gone wrong, since there was continuity in the growth of incarceration, as well as an increase in crime rates.