RESPONSABILIDAD PENAL POR LA GENERACIÓN DE INCENTIVOS PERVERSOS.

This work opens a legal debate, arguing the possibility of a criminal liability to those who design public policies and generate perverse incentives that lead an agent to commit punishable acts under the protection of criminal law. Throughout this work the ontological nature of the perverse incentives will be examined from various disciplinary approaches, including Robert Merton s sociological point of view, the Lacanian psychoanalitical point of view, the Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Pierre Bourdieu's sociological point of view, and Slavoj Žižek's philosophy, among others. Finally, we examine how the theory of criminal liability for perverse incentives could adapt within the Colombian legal order, under the figure of the "determiner", and the modalities of criminal offense, willful malice and willful negligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]