The reality of criminal policy and its link with human rights in Venezuela

Abstract

This article, referring to the reality of criminal policy and its link with human rights in Venezuela, aims to explain the importance from the criminal point of view of these two aspects, criminal policy and human rights. The research is documentary and bibliographic design, including the review of web sources, texts, laws and databases, using the technique of signing. It is important to highlight that crime prevention is constituted as one of the central issues of criminology, not only from an etiological approach, which aims to unravel the causes of crime to act on them, but also from a sociological or of the social reaction, which is certainly also interested in the preventive task, focusing on the functioning of the criminal system and criminalization processes; The possibility of coexistence of both approaches to criminology can also be noted. In relation to human rights, respect for human dignity is one of the pillars of the current Venezuelan criminal system, whose validity must be guaranteed by the State. The State itself is obliged to guarantee public safety; the recognition of a fundamental right derives a duty of protection for society. As a final reflection it can be said that the criminal policy designed by the Venezuelan State is directly linked to human rights, both the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Organic Criminal Procedure Code are reliable evidence of the design of this criminal policy.