UBACyT research projects

Starting date of the project

July 1, 2011

Ending date of the project

June 30, 2013

Code

20020100200220

Type of project

Group training

Title

The judgement of crimes of lese humanity of the last military dictatorship in Argentina. Analysis and contributions from criminology and the sciences of law.

Director

Gabriel Ignacio Anitua

Codirector

Daniel Rafecas

Contact

ganitua@derecho.uba.ar

 

MEMBERS
Name Category
1 Javier Lancestremere Researcher trained
2 Luciano Andrés Hazan Researcher trained
3 Valeria Alejandra Picco Researcher trained
4 Alexis Javier Álvarez Nakagawa Investigator in training
5 María Cecilia Acosta Güemes Investigator in training
6 Sofía Clerici Investigator in training
7 Mariano Sebastián Gaitán
Investigator in training
8 Sebastián Antonio Pacilio Investigator in training
9 Dalila Bettina Seoane Investigator in training
10 María Florencia Sotelo Investigator in training
11 Leonardo Hugo Limanski
Student researcher

 

Keywords

Crimes against humanity
Process of truth
Justice impunity

Abstract

The present investigation has the object of studying and analyzing the speeches and the practices developed in the legal field since the process of judgement of the responsable of the grave violations of human rights commited in Argentina during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983) -process that is still in course-, from an integral focus that covers its aspects in criminology and criminal law. The proyect starts out from two basic hypothesis: a) That the speeches and practices developed within the process of truth and justice have a considerable impact in the law framework, because of which its stuy will contribute to the development of the discipline, and b) That the cientific productions that would be elaborated as a result of the study of this speeches and practices will have influence in the historical process in course, considering that the University is not outside from it. In this context, the folowing aims are suggested: 1) To describe and analyze the functioning of state repressive devices and its relations with political, judicial, communicational and academics in the context of the military dictatorship. 2) To study the process of truth and justice developed in our country, identifying its different historical stages and to takes up the speeches and practices that in the legal field justified the impunity or the judgement of the responsables of the illegal repression. 3) To disclose, systematize, and examine the speeches and legal constructions to take place during this process, basically from the jurisprudence and the specialized legal doctrine. 4) To disclose, and account for the various practice linked to the litigation and the administration of justice developed from the trials against the people involve in the illigal repression, and the of it´s impact in the legal framework. 5) To identify the controversial aspects of this topic and to build new ideas to allow understand and give responses to them, even in the legal criminal view, or from the cominology, the criminal dogmatic and the adjetive criminal law.