Exclusión social, política criminal y culpabilidad penal en el Perú: una reinterpretación del artículo 15 del Código Penal

• Autor: Chanjan Documet, Rafael
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/205454
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/iusetveritas/article/view/33127/28530; http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/205454; https://doi.org/10.18800/iusetveritas.202501.016
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Social exclusion; Peruvian criminal policy; Criminal; Culpability; Perú; Exclusión social; Política criminal peruana; Culpabilidad penal; Derecho Penal; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.05.00

The permanent situation of social exclusion experienced by some people in Peru requires that the criminal system give them special treatment for certain criminal acts in order to implement a criminal policy in accordance with a Social and Democratic State of Law. This paper critically analyzes the current Peruvian criminal policy model, which has a punitive or “soft hand” treatment depending the type of crime, and which tends to perpetuate and aggravate the situation of social exclusion of some groups, not significantly reducing crime rates. Therefore, a reflection is proposed on the dogmatic category of culpability, specifically exigibility, in order to exonerate or reduce the criminal responsibility of these people for certain types of crimes, reinterpreting article 15 of the Peruvian Criminal Code.