El objetivo del sistema penal en un Estado de Derecho no es reemplazar la venganza privada, sino prevenir el delito. Sin embargo, esa prevención también debe estar sujeta a principios de racionalidad y proporcionalidad y no puede perseguirse a cualquier precio, dado que en ocasiones el sistema penal puede resultar para la sociedad más costoso que el delito mismo. El análisis económico del derecho brinda herramientas para procurar un sistema penal que contribuya a la maximización del bienestar de la sociedad, optimizando la utilización de los distintos tipos de pena como mecanismo de prevencióndel delito. En este trabajo efectuaremos un repaso en relación a la aplicación del análisis económico al derecho penal, con especial hincapié en los delitos económicos.

Compliance programs and systems of criminal or administrative liability are being increasingly adopted by different countries as measures meant to reduce the social cost of white collar criminality. However, the legal application of these measures does not always ponder correctly the impacts on common good, the levels of economic activity and the adequate functioning of markets of goods and services. Eventually, this situation can lead to undesired effects, such as the inefficiency of the criminal system, the reduction of economic activity or the arising of obstacles to competition. By taking these circumstances into account, in this paper we will utilize the Economic Analysis of Law to analyze the logic that inspires these legal institutes and the incentives they generate. Our objective is to delineate some parameters that allow legislators, judges, legal advisors and businessmen to eva...

In this paper, the Brasilia Rules are analyzed as an effective instrument to reduce different types of costs that operate as extrinsic and intrinsic barriers to access to justice by individuals in vulnerable situations. In this sense, they contribute to the efficiency of the legal system and to the maximization of welfare and social wealth, which is a valuable contribution to social cohesion, to the realization of life projects of people, to the prosperity and to the full development of large sectors of the population of our historically relegated countries.

Compliance programs and systems of criminal or administrative liability are being increasingly adopted by different countries as measures meant to reduce the social cost of white collar criminality. However, the legal application of these measures does not always ponder correctly the impacts on common good, the levels of economic activity and the adequate functioning of markets of goods and services. Eventually, this situation can lead to undesired effects, such as the inefficiency of the criminal system, the reduction of economic activity or the arising of obstacles to competition. By taking these circumstances into account, in this paper we will utilize the Economic Analysis of Law to analyze the logic that inspires these legal institutes and the incentives they generate. Our objective is to delineate some parameters that allow legislators, judges, legal advisors and businessmen to eva...

El objetivo del sistema penal en un Estado de Derecho no es reemplazar la venganza privada, sino prevenir el delito. Sin embargo, esa prevención también debe estar sujeta a principios de racionalidad y proporcionalidad y no puede perseguirse a cualquier precio, dado que en ocasiones el sistema penal puede resultar para la sociedad más costoso que el delito mismo. El análisis económico del derecho brinda herramientas para procurar un sistema penal que contribuya a la maximización del bienestar de la sociedad, optimizando la utilización de los distintos tipos de pena como mecanismo de prevencióndel delito. En este trabajo efectuaremos un repaso en relación a la aplicación del análisis económico al derecho penal, con especial hincapié en los delitos económicos.

Compliance programs and systems of criminal or administrative liability are being increasingly adopted by different countries as measures meant to reduce the social cost of white collar criminality. However, the legal application of these measures does not always ponder correctly the impacts on common good, the levels of economic activity and the adequate functioning of markets of goods and services. Eventually, this situation can lead to undesired effects, such as the inefficiency of the criminal system, the reduction of economic activity or the arising of obstacles to competition. By taking these circumstances into account, in this paper we will utilize the Economic Analysis of Law to analyze the logic that inspires these legal institutes and the incentives they generate. Our objective is to delineate some parameters that allow legislators, judges, legal advisors and businessmen to eva...