The schools and main currents of the penal law in the Salvadoran legislation

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to review the principal ideologies of the salvadorian penal codes up to the penal legislation of 1974. We will study the two dominant tendencies in that period of time: 1) the classical penal code or liberal, overall present in the penal code up to 1904, and 2) the positivism model and the criminal law of author, dominant throughout most of the XX century in our country. In the next number, we will study other tendencies in the codification from 1974 up to 1998.

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 151, 2018: 115-146