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¿No second chances? Criminal records as a legal-criminal issue

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  • Hugo Villalobos Vallejos Ayudante ad honorem del Departamento de Ciencias Penales de la Universidad de Chile
No. 28 (2018): Primer semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4735.2018.50375

Abstract

Criminal records are both normative and institutional consequences of criminal blame, given the legal registration of all criminal convictions. The current article analyze the legal nature of criminal record by recognizing an expressive function of punishment as a conventional device to express resentment and reprobation when criminal law is breached: If punishment is an expression of condemnation, then criminal records register this condemnation. The implications of the connection between punishment and criminal records allow us to conclude that any impact on fundamental rights of the ex-convicted through the preservation of criminal records is neither appropriate, necessary nor proportionate when the individual has fully served his sentence.

Keywords:

Criminal records, expressive function of punishment, fundamental rights, proportionality, post imprisonment hard treatments

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Villalobos Vallejos, H. (2018). ¿No second chances? Criminal records as a legal-criminal issue. Revista De Estudios De La Justicia, (28). https://doi.org/10.5354/0718-4735.2018.50375
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Facultad de Derecho
Universidad de Chile
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