La cuestión criminal. Ensayo de (re)definición

Abstract

This paper seeks to formulate a definition of the criminal question in terms of genus and specific difference. This objective will be accomplished trough the articulation of diverse results of social theory and social research regarding two essential dimensions of this issue: the first, mythological and the second, sociological. The results of this will be the conceptualization of the fundamental prohibitions as founding myths of the ultimate limits of the societal order, crime as a transgression of such interdictions, and criminal punishment as a mechanism of (re)construction of the basic classification system of that order and the affective economy that correspond to it.