Ascension and decline of positivism in Argentina

Abstract

The criminological positivism reached the Argentinean coasts after Lombroso, Ferri and Garofalo exposed to the world the need to end the classic criminal law. At first, the new Italian trend was received with joy by a good part of the Argentinean penalists, but in reality, the practical application of its postulates was conspicuous by its absence. Throughout this article, we will study how criminological positivism became a reference doctrine in the Argentine legal world, and at the same time, we will explain the reasons that caused it to become nothing more than a memory around the 1930s.