Abstract

GODOY, Mariana Inés. Crime, Conflict: Legal sensitivities and institutional framework in the field of penal mediation in Salta, Argentina. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2016, vol.9, n.1, pp.57-68. ISSN 1852-060X.

In this article I expose parts of the results of an ethnographic work done on the institutional process which characterizes the first year's implementation of mediation -between 2012 and 2015-, as a form of administration of certain criminal disputes in Salta-Argentina, considering in particular the perspective of the mediator and its significant and everyday context. Following the concept of "legal sensitivities" from Clifford Geertz, we focus on the opposition among the concepts of crime, litigation and conflict, and with them individual person, perceptions of criminal mediation related to other fields of justice and criteria disputes about which cases can be treated in criminal mediation. We assume that these perceptions and considerations, which are not entirely be settled by laws or regulation, contribute to complicate and streamline the field of conflict management in Salta; producing and questioning hierarchies among legal practitioners, establishing struggles for affirmation of this field related to other areas of administration of justice, realizing in performance of their relative autonomy. Such concepts also speak about how individual operators conceive and define their work.

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