Opportunity principle in criminal procedural action and restorative justice

Contemporary criminal procedural systems, which tend to be accusatory, often establish a regime for criminal action that includes the so-called “opportunity principle”, which grants the holder of criminal action a margin of discretion that allows them to abstain from exercising such action, definiti...

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Autores:
Uribe Álvarez, Roberth
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Fecha de publicación:
2023
Institución:
Universidad EAFIT
Repositorio:
Repositorio EAFIT
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/33435
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/10784/33435
Palabra clave:
Regime of criminal procedural action
opportunity principle of criminal procedural action
principle of officiality of criminal procedural action
restorative justice
retributive justice
restorative mediation
positive transformation of conflicts
Régimen de la acción procesal penal
principio de oficiosidad de la acción procesal penal
principio de oportunidad de la acción procesal penal
justicia restaurativa
justicia retributiva
mediación restaurativa
transformación positiva de conflictos
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Copyright © 2023 Roberth Uribe Álvarez
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Summary:Contemporary criminal procedural systems, which tend to be accusatory, often establish a regime for criminal action that includes the so-called “opportunity principle”, which grants the holder of criminal action a margin of discretion that allows them to abstain from exercising such action, definitively or temporarily, in legally established cases. The current Colombian criminal procedural system regulates the “opportunity principle”, linking its exercise to various criteria, which are more oriented towards the conception of criminal action as a state duty rather than a focus on the rights of victims of criminal conduct. This work proposes a divergent approach, aimed at establishing the foundations of a conception of the opportunity principle in criminal procedural action that gives more relevance to restorative justice than to retributive justice, in the construction of doctrine on the opportunity of criminal procedural action and, therefore, more projection to the perspective of victims’ rights than to the perspective based on the right or power of the State to punish and the consequent duty to exercise such action.