The Punitive Element: The evolution of the figure of corporal punishment in the Nicaraguan criminal law paradigm

The study of the figure of corporal punishment and with it the particularity of the institutions of power, cannot be pigeonholed into a mere academic disposition or into a necessity imposed by arguments of an economic, political or authoritarian order. In this academic work three main aspects of the study of the punitive exercise are presented: historical development, the reform of the punitive element, its use and effects on the current normative and practical paradigm. To this end, a critical review is made of the proposals that have been subjected to a study of the phenomenon of punitive events, as well as of the criminal justice system itself and its regulations, seeking to systematize more than just theory, review and analysis, a way of providing fundamental contributions that also reveal the mistakes of an entire practical and regulatory system.