Decidir rápido, condenar pronto. El proceso de flagrancia desde la sociología de la justicia penal

Kostenwein, Ezequiel Roberto

doi:10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/sociojuridicos/a.5434

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“…Despite little systematic evidence thereof (Fondevila & Quintana-Navarrete, 2020), flagrant crimes are seen as "good" cases for prosecutors, who can build their cases on suspects, witnesses and evidence that have already been identified, 6 making it more likely to obtain a guilty verdict in a trial (Ríos Leiva, 2012). Studies in Argentina (Kostenwein, 2018) and Chile (Castillo Val et al, 2011;Fandiño et al, 2017;P asara, 2009) have shown that the perception of flagrant crimes as "good" cases works as a selffulfilling prophecy, thereby casting doubt on the effectiveness of the criminal justice system in handling criminal offenses that are not flagrant.…”

Section: Detentions In Flagrante Delicto In Chilementioning

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How to not have to know: Legal technicalities and flagrant criminal offenses in Santiago, Chile

Araya‐Moreno

2022

Law Soc Rev

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Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in lower criminal courts and in one unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Santiago, Chile, I explore the way in which criminal offenses considered flagrant are treated by the Chilean criminal justice system. Citing the literature on legal technicalities, I describe how flagrant criminal offenses are constructed through practices that make it possible for the actors involved to avoid directly referring to the alleged facts. From their identification on the streets by police officers to their reassignment to a different unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office or their adjudication at a criminal court, flagrant criminal offenses are defined by a specific way of approaching the alleged facts, which is translated into specific organizational and documentary practices. The role of these practices contrasts with the apparently marginal role that the detention in flagrante delicto plays in the mechanics of criminal law. As a technicality, the flagrant character of a criminal offense conveys certain epistemological assumptions about how to determine what happened and what exactly constitutes the criminal offense. More specifically, it conveys assumptions about what cannot, for the moment, be known and that can, therefore, be ignored throughout the bureaucratic and judicial process.

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How to not have to know: Legal technicalities and flagrant criminal offenses in Santiago, Chile

Araya‐Moreno

2022

Law Soc Rev

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“…En general véase tambiénVigour, 2006;Kostenwein, 2018; Ciocchini, 2012. 13 Nardulli, 1979;Jones, 1979;Feeley, 1979a.…”

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El procesamiento de delitos de baja entidad en Chile

Bernath

Spikin

2022

Rev. derecho (Valdivia)

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Pese a la concentración en el estudio de un imaginario del derecho penal adversarial y centrado en comportamientos especialmente reprochables, la práctica del sistema penal tiende a operar en una realidad distinta: la de los delitos de baja entidad. En ellos, casos rutinarios son procesados con dosis muy bajas de conflicto. El presente artículo tematiza esta realidad, poniendo de relieve las principales características de este modo de operación, las razones por las que predomina en la práctica, y dando un vistazo inicial a su modo de funcionamiento en Chile.

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Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina

Ciocchini

Kostenwein

2022

Crime Law Soc Change

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The criminal process in the Province of Buenos Aires has been affected by radical reforms in the last decades. Beginning with the complete replacement of the criminal procedure code in 1998 to the introduction of pre-trial hearings and simplified procedures for cases declared in flagrante delicto in 2004 the reforms have impacted more than legal procedures; they have changed the way judicial actors perceive themselves and their relations with the institution. Based on interviews with ten public defenders of the PBA this article offers an exploratory analysis on how public defenders’ perceptions have been impacted by those reforms and to what extent those internal changes have affected the internal dynamics of the PD. Drawing from the sociology of Bernard Lahire and Laurent Thenevot we identify in the public defenders’ responses how these changes affected their personal commitments. Mapping those commitments allow us to describe the subjective folds of the PD through which it is possible to better understand the decisions of public defenders by considering the internalization they make of the judicial world and its relationship with the institutional context.

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Decidir rápido, condenar pronto. El proceso de flagrancia desde la sociología de la justicia penal

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How to not have to know: Legal technicalities and flagrant criminal offenses in Santiago, Chile

How to not have to know: Legal technicalities and flagrant criminal offenses in Santiago, Chile

El procesamiento de delitos de baja entidad en Chile

Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina

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