¡Es Lunes y el CRAI-USTA lo Sabe! La Desconfianza en la Justicia: el Funcionalismo Penal Sistémico en Colombia

Abstract

In today's program, the panelists reflected on the importance of the concept of justice for societies, particularly focusing on our country and the practices within the system that have shown evidence of not being applied equitably and consistently. To this end, today's guest, Andrés Felipe Duque Pedroza—litigating lawyer and advisor in criminal law, summa cum laude doctoral graduate in law—delves into his doctoral thesis: “Conditions of Possibility and Limits of Validity of Systemic Penal Functionalism in Colombia,” aimed at analyzing the distrust in the institutions that administer justice in our country. He measures its impact by examining how we have and use a jurisprudence created for a different type of society governed by German theory, and how its application to the Colombian case is delegitimized because our society operates under distrust in institutions; in other words, there is no model of trust, and it is necessary to transform this concept in order to advance as a society. This is a very interesting conversation that invites the Tomasina community to learn about this research.