El principio de proporcionalidad en derecho penal. Algunas consideraciones acerca de su concretización en el ámbito de la individualización de la pena

Abstract

Faced with the constant tension between judicial judgement and Legal valuation in the process of individualization of punishment and the absence of a strong theory guiding it, the need to purge criteria that are suitable for collecting both objective and subjective circumstances surrounding the facts is born, from a predominantly retrospective approach. Here the principle of proportionality is on fertile ground to spread, and its emergent autonomy grants it virtuality to specify the criminal standard, and thus become one of the most important guidelines for rationalization in the exercise of ius puniendi. © 2009 Universidad de Talca, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales.