Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis

Fear and Distrust

E. Restrepo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2001
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-92163-0 (ISBN)

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Most people believe that criminal justice in Colombia is rife with impunity and corruption. Elvira María Restrepo delves beneath such beliefs to reveal a system driven at a fundamental level by fear and distrust from outside the system itself. With the present difficulties in the country tantamount to a state of irregular war, the judiciary is in crisis. It has to contribute to the construction of peace and the reconstruction of trust, or perish.

Elvira María Restrepo was trained as a lawyer at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and Harvard University. She went on to coordinate the Human Rights Preparatory Commission for the Constitutional Assembly which reformed the Colombian Constitution in 1991. After working as a legal advisor to the Colombian General, she moved to the UK, where she obtained her D.Phil. at Oxford University.

List of Tables and Charts Preface Acronyms Introduction PART I: OVERVIEW OF THE POLITICAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS The Political Background The System of Justice PART II: CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN CRISIS Performance of the System of Justice Fear to Accuse and Fear to Prosecute Judicial Corruption: Heroes and Villains PART III: FEAR AND DISTRUST Impact of Drug Trafficking in Judicial Institutions Justice in a Country with an Irregular War References Bibliography Charts and Maps Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2001
Reihe/Serie	St Antony's Series
Zusatzinfo	XXVI, 236 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-333-92163-1 / 0333921631
ISBN-13	978-0-333-92163-0 / 9780333921630
Zustand	Neuware