國立虎尾科技大學 |

Victims' rights in flux = criminal justice reform in Colombia /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Victims' rights in flux/ by Astrid Liliana Sanchez-Mejia.
Reminder of title:	criminal justice reform in Colombia /
Author:	Sanchez-Mejia, Astrid Liliana.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	xxvii, 265 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Justice, Administration of - Colombia. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59852-9
ISBN:	9783319598529

Victims' rights in flux = criminal justice reform in Colombia /
Sanchez-Mejia, Astrid Liliana.

Victims' rights in fluxcriminal justice reform in Colombia /[electronic resource] :by Astrid Liliana Sanchez-Mejia. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xxvii, 265 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Ius gentium: comparative perspectives on law and justice,v.621534-6781 ;. - Ius gentium: comparative perspectives on law and justice ;v.10..

Chapter 1. The Expansion of Rights of Crime Victims in the Context of the 1991 Constitution -- Chapter 2. (Un)protecting Victims' Rights in the Colombian Criminal Justice Reform of the Early 2000s -- Chapter 3. Reactions to the Regulation on Victims of the 2004 CPC: Challenges, Adjustments, and Punitive Counterreforms -- Chapter 4. Assessing the Effects of the 2004 CPC on Victim's Rights Data.

Contributing to the literature on comparative criminal procedure and Latin American law, this book examines the effects of adversarial criminal justice reforms on victim's rights by specifically analyzing the Colombian criminal justice reform of the early 2000s. This research focuses on the production, interpretation, and implementation of rules and institutions by exploring how different actors have employed the concept of victims and victims' rights to promote their agendas in the context of criminal justice reforms. It also analyzes how the goals of these agendas have interplayed in practice. By the early 2000s, it seemed that the Colombian criminal justice system was headed towards a process characterized by broader victim participation, primarily because of the doctrine of the Constitutional Court on victims' rights. But in 2002, the Colombian Attorney General promoted a more adversarial criminal justice reform. This book argues that this reform represented a sudden and unpredicted reversal of the Constitutional Court's doctrine on victim participation, even though one of the central justifications for the reform was the need to satisfy human rights standards and adhere to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court on victims' rights. In the criminal justice reform of the early 2000s and its subsequent modifications, the promotion of a dichotomous interpretation of the adversarial model--which conceived the criminal process as a competition between prosecution and defense--served to limit victim participation. This study examines how conceptions of victims' rights emerged out of the struggles between different and at times competing agendas. In the Colombian process of reform, victims' rights have been invoked both as a justification for criminal sanctions and as an explanation for crime prevention and restorative justice. After assessing quantitative and qualitative data, this book concludes that punitive approaches to victims' rights have prevailed over restorative justice perspectives. Furthermore, it argues that punitiveness in the criminal justice system has not resulted in more protection for victims. Ultimately, this research reveals that the adversarial criminal justice reform of the early 2000s has not substantially improved the protection of victims' rights in Colombia.

ISBN: 9783319598529

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-59852-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1199040
Justice, Administration of
--Colombia.

LC Class. No.: KHH5404

Dewey Class. No.: 345.86105

Victims' rights in flux = criminal justice reform in Colombia /
LDR:03773nam a2200325 a 4500 001 923037
003 DE-He213
005 20170714114925.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 190625s2017 gw s 0 eng d
020 $a 9783319598529 $q (electronic bk.)
020 $a 9783319598512 $q (paper)
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-319-59852-9 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-319-59852-9
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a KHH5404
072 7 $a JPVH $2 bicssc
072 7 $a LAW051000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 345.86105 $2 23
090 $a KHH5404 $b .S211 2017
100 1 $a Sanchez-Mejia, Astrid Liliana. $3 1199039
245 1 0 $a Victims' rights in flux $h [electronic resource] : $b criminal justice reform in Colombia / $c by Astrid Liliana Sanchez-Mejia.
260 $a Cham : $c 2017. $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Springer,
300 $a xxvii, 265 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
490 1 $a Ius gentium: comparative perspectives on law and justice, $x 1534-6781 ; $v v.62
505 0 $a Chapter 1. The Expansion of Rights of Crime Victims in the Context of the 1991 Constitution -- Chapter 2. (Un)protecting Victims' Rights in the Colombian Criminal Justice Reform of the Early 2000s -- Chapter 3. Reactions to the Regulation on Victims of the 2004 CPC: Challenges, Adjustments, and Punitive Counterreforms -- Chapter 4. Assessing the Effects of the 2004 CPC on Victim's Rights Data.
520 $a Contributing to the literature on comparative criminal procedure and Latin American law, this book examines the effects of adversarial criminal justice reforms on victim's rights by specifically analyzing the Colombian criminal justice reform of the early 2000s. This research focuses on the production, interpretation, and implementation of rules and institutions by exploring how different actors have employed the concept of victims and victims' rights to promote their agendas in the context of criminal justice reforms. It also analyzes how the goals of these agendas have interplayed in practice. By the early 2000s, it seemed that the Colombian criminal justice system was headed towards a process characterized by broader victim participation, primarily because of the doctrine of the Constitutional Court on victims' rights. But in 2002, the Colombian Attorney General promoted a more adversarial criminal justice reform. This book argues that this reform represented a sudden and unpredicted reversal of the Constitutional Court's doctrine on victim participation, even though one of the central justifications for the reform was the need to satisfy human rights standards and adhere to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court on victims' rights. In the criminal justice reform of the early 2000s and its subsequent modifications, the promotion of a dichotomous interpretation of the adversarial model--which conceived the criminal process as a competition between prosecution and defense--served to limit victim participation. This study examines how conceptions of victims' rights emerged out of the struggles between different and at times competing agendas. In the Colombian process of reform, victims' rights have been invoked both as a justification for criminal sanctions and as an explanation for crime prevention and restorative justice. After assessing quantitative and qualitative data, this book concludes that punitive approaches to victims' rights have prevailed over restorative justice perspectives. Furthermore, it argues that punitiveness in the criminal justice system has not resulted in more protection for victims. Ultimately, this research reveals that the adversarial criminal justice reform of the early 2000s has not substantially improved the protection of victims' rights in Colombia.
650 0 $a Justice, Administration of $z Colombia. $3 1199040
650 0 $a Law reform $z Colombia. $3 1199041
650 0 $a Victims of crimes $x Legal status, laws, etc. $z Colombia. $3 940068
650 1 4 $a Law. $3 671705
650 2 4 $a Human Rights. $3 883254
650 2 4 $a Human Rights and Crime. $3 1140276
650 2 4 $a Criminal Law. $3 668190
650 2 4 $a Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights. $3 1105101
650 2 4 $a Constitutional Law. $3 671565
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer eBooks
830 0 $a Ius gentium: comparative perspectives on law and justice ; $v v.10. $3 887880
856 4 0 $u http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59852-9
950 $a Law and Criminology (Springer-41177)