The work I am writing the prologue to is, from my point of view, the most consistent effort of orientation to criminological praxis that I have seen in the last decades in Central America, and its prolix research is only the prolegomenon to a definitive and urgent proposal in our countries, to make possible a crime prevention close to the community and within it. Where the problem of crime and the transgressor is seen in a broader context of inequity and social inequality, integration and social reintegration and commitment to the human person. These elements alone make this work mandatory reading for politicians when the dismay of the "pro-victim" speeches are fed today by the stentorian cries of zero tolerance, the alleged impunity of the Judiciary and the need for "shock measures" against the phenomenon of crime.