Moral Judgments in Mexico: Redefinition of Practices and Restructuring of the Justice System

Authors

  • Angélica Cuéllar Vázquez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM - Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales FCPyS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2318-8081.15.2

Keywords:

Judicial Reform, Social Practices, Habitus, Field, Legal Operators, Reframing Practices

Abstract

Since the reform in criminal matters publication in 2008, Mexico, a gradual, but significant, change is generated in the way of implementation and administration of justice institutions perform their duties. This change was the transition from the system to trail prosecution questioning-oral model. This transition involves not only a structural change in Mexico’s justice system, but subverts practice of the legal profession. The intent of this article is to peek at the process of change in judiciary’s practices.

Author Biography

Angélica Cuéllar Vázquez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM - Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales FCPyS

Doctora en sociología por la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y posdoctora en Sociología Jurídica I´istituto di Filosofia e Sociologia del Diritto, Facolta di Giuriprudenza, Universitá Degli Studi Di Milano.

Profesora de tiempo completo en la FCPyS de la UNAM desde 1980.

Publicaciones: La justicia sometida. Análisis sociológico de una sentencia (2000), Los jueces de la tradición. Un estudio de caso (2009), El desafuero de Andres Manuel López Obrador (2011) y La SCJN: sus ministros, la politica y el gravio social (2014)

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Published

2015-11-24

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2015)

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