The article briefly approaches some questions on the main penal theories that they turn around the determination of the penalty in the sentenced ones of codified legal systems, being jurisdictional processes, among them, the theory of the danger of Cesar Lombroso. The tendency of these criminal policies at international level (not only in Latin America) consists of replacing within the penal scope, the theories of danger by those of culpability. In our consideration, this criminal policy leaves to a side the victim, mainly in those where cruelty and the violence are presents in the commission of the crime.