La Zaranda de Ideas (Dec 2021)
PARADIGM SHIFT: CONSENSUSES AND DISPUTES AROUND THE VICTIM’S LAW IN ARGENTINA
Abstract
Victims have become increasingly important in the contemporary social movement. They are the protagonists of many mobilizations, demands reparations from the State, works in state agencies, and so on. This article is about the treatment in Congress of Law 27.372, commonly known as the Victims’ Law, whose objective is to modify the role of the victim in the criminal process. I will focus on the debate on the law, based on the presentations made by different crime victims, experts and officials during the treatment of the law, considering three topics of discussion that are relevant to understanding the world of victims. The first of these is about the opposition between experience and expert knowledge, the other two analyze the difference between revenge and the search for justice, and criminal policy as a moral issue.
