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Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis

Fear and Distrust

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Elvira María Restrepo

    1. Bogotá, Colombia

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Overview of the Political and Judicial Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Political Background

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      Pages 3-19

    3. The System of Justice

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      Pages 20-70

  3. Criminal Justice in Crisis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. The Performance of the System of Justice

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      Pages 73-100

    3. Fear to Accuse and Fear to Prosecute

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      Pages 101-116

    4. Judicial Corruption: Heroes and Villains

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      Pages 117-136

  4. Fear and Distrust

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Impact of Drug Trafficking on Judicial Institutions

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      Pages 139-149

    3. Justice in a Country with an Irregular War

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      Pages 150-167

  5. Conclusions

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    Pages 168-172

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 173-235
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About this book

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.

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  • Bogotá, Colombia

    Elvira María Restrepo

About the author

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.

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