Orígenes del encarcelamiento masivo en la Argentina

This paper proposes to historically address a set of processes that led to the formation of mass imprisonment in Argentina, along with the decline of the rehabilitative ideal. In order to understand this set of processes, it is not enough to look exclusively at the period in which incarceration rates skyrocketed, but rather the look must start from the moment of legal consolidation of the rehabilitative ideal in Argentina. This is in order to try to record, from then on, the variations in the penitentiary policies that were implemented to put it into practice or not. Although mass incarceration is a global phenomenon, particularly intense in Latin America, this local approach is proposed to contribute to the general reflection on this phenomenon in the region, which is growing above the global average.