Violence and penal system

Abstract

It is a common aspect that Salvadorans and Salvadorans in various opinion polls place crime as one of the main national problems.
It is also easy to determine that the concern of Salvadorans is accompanied by a collective sense of insecurity, mainly about life, integrity, sexual freedom and property.
To a large extent, this relationship between crime / insecurity, various media and public officials related to justice and public security have contributed to conceptual confusion by equating the crime category with the violence category, that is, the problem of violence. delinquency is a problem of violence - of social violence as some call it - and whose manifestations are limited to a more or less reduced catalog of figures such as homicide, kidnapping, rapes, robberies and public fights.
However, this equation of categories is erroneous from the normative and impractical point of view as a premise for the study and delimitation of the problem.