Controlando los resultados del sistema penal sobre el derecho administrativo del derecho penal

The article analyzes the difficulties that the Chilean penal system shows in controlling its outcomes. It shows that the combination of a legal culture fixed with individual judgements and an institutional design that maintains that focus and disperses decision-making powers between non-coordinated actors, might tend to produce such an effect. The article offers a reconstruction of the administrative alternatives of control of penal outcomes that can be respectful of the type of decision-making system that makes out criminal law.