The incipient national organized crime and its executioners, the improvised hitmen

Authors

  • Mario Pablo Rodríguez Hurtado Pontifical Catholic University of Peru image/svg+xml

Keywords:

Criminal Law, contract killing, criminal policy, organized crime, criminalization

Abstract

A criminal modality that is becoming increasingly important nowadays and has many victims is the contract killing or the use of hitmen. The situation is aggravated by the presence of a process of crime institutionalization. The Peruvian government has responded to this problem typifying the aforementioned crime in the Criminal Code under condemns with are becoming longer. Was this the best solution?
In the present article, the author answers this question by analyzing the penal types of contract killing while making a critic of the national criminal policy, taking into account the existence of other criminal types and other possible solutions, to finally prove its futility.

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Author Biography

  • Mario Pablo Rodríguez Hurtado, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

    Abogado. Profesor de Derecho Penal en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Profesor de Derecho Procesal Penal en la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Profesor Principal de Litigación Oral en la Academia de la Magistratura.
    Socio fundador del Estudio Rodríguez Hurtado Abogados. Contacto: mprodrig@pucp.edu.pe.

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Published

2015-10-07

Issue

Section

Derecho Penal Especial

How to Cite

The incipient national organized crime and its executioners, the improvised hitmen. (2015). THEMIS Revista de Derecho, 68, 101-111. https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/themis/article/view/15586