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Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis
E Restrepo
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Description for Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis
Paperback. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS; L. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
St Antony's
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349424931
SKU
V9781349424931
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Ref
99-15
About E Restrepo
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 ... Read more
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