Penitentiary Treatment: Its Perspectives in Argentina – Legal and Criminological Analysis

Abstract

Argentine legislation (Law 24,660 and its amendments) regulates penitentiary treatment both as a stage of the progressive regime and as the activity of prison administration itself, made up of specific programs, whose objective is the social reinsertion of the convicted person. This chapter proposes, on the one hand, to analyse the issue of treatment from a regulatory perspective, outlining its distinctive notes, while also describing and problematizing the criminological aspects that characterize it. In this way, this integration (legal and criminological analysis) allows for accounting for those key elements related to carrying out treatment in prison facilities in Argentina.