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This article analyzes the negative impact of the reforms within the criminal systems in Latin America, both for those who suffer a crime, and those who are accused of having committed such crime. Supprted by empirical data, the author warns how the innovations of the reformed criminal proceedings (for example, the simplified court proceeding or the active role played by prosecutors), by enrolling into an authoritative legalculture, become in practice contrary to their likely design.

This article analyzes the negative impact of the reforms within the criminal systems in Latin America, both for those who suffer a crime, and those who are accused of having committed such crime. Supprted by empirical data, the author warns how the innovations of the reformed criminal proceedings (for example, the simplified court proceeding or the active role played by prosecutors), by enrolling into an authoritative legalculture, become in practice contrary to their likely design.

This article analyzes the negative impact of the reforms within the criminal systems in Latin America, both for those who suffer a crime, and those who are accused of having committed such crime. Supprted by empirical data, the author warns how the innovations of the reformed criminal proceedings (for example, the simplified court proceeding or the active role played by prosecutors), by enrolling into an authoritative legalculture, become in practice contrary to their likely design.

This article explores the conditions offered by the justice system in Latin America to effectively accomplish the Rule of Law. Firstly, it reviews the heritage of the legal tradition in the region, in which the notion of Rule of Law is absent and judges did not practice constitutional and legal review. Justice reform is characterized, to some extent, as an alien project looking for better conditions for a market system in the context of State reform. Its achievements and shortcomings are appraised, and legal pluralism proposals are discussed. Finally, by recognizing the existence of «low intensity citizens» in Latin America the author rejects the idea of making a revolution through justice reform and proposes to constraint the latter to a set of feasible objectives for benefiting the average citizen.

This article explores the conditions offered by the justice system in Latin America to effectively accomplish the Rule of Law. Firstly, it reviews the heritage of the legal tradition in the region, in which the notion of Rule of Law is absent and judges did not practice constitutional and legal review. Justice reform is characterized, to some extent, as an alien project looking for better conditions for a market system in the context of State reform. Its achievements and shortcomings are appraised, and legal pluralism proposals are discussed. Finally, by recognizing the existence of «low intensity citizens» in Latin America the author rejects the idea of making a revolution through justice reform and proposes to constraint the latter to a set of feasible objectives for benefiting the average citizen.