Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims' Rights in Latin America - Hardcover

Michel, Verónica

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108422047 ISBN 13: 9781108422048

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

In some Latin American countries, private prosecution improves access to justice for victims of crime as well as human rights violations. By examining how citizens use this right to push states to hold perpetrators accountable, Verónica Michel highlights how the rule of law is shored up by individual legal struggles.

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Reseña del editor

The responsibility of any state is to protect its citizens. But if a state, either through omission or commission, fails to investigate and prosecute crime then what remedies do citizens have? Verónica Michel investigates procedural rights in Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico that allow citizens to call for the appointment of a private prosecutor to initiate criminal investigations. This right diminishes the monopoly of the state over criminal prosecutions and thus offers citizens a way of insisting on state accountability. This book provides the first full-length empirical study of how the victims' right to private prosecution can impact access to justice in Latin America, and shows how institutional and legal arrangements interact to shape the politics of criminal justice. By examining homicide cases in detail, Michel highlights how everyday legal struggles can help build the rule of law from below.

Biografía del autor

Verónica Michel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Her article 'Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America' (co-authored with Kathryn Sikkink, Law and Society Review) received the 2014 Best Journal Article Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108422047
• ISBN 13: 9781108422048
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246