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Contributing to the literature on comparative criminal procedure
and Latin American law, this book examines the effects of
adversarial criminal justice reforms on victim's rights by
specifically analyzing the Colombian criminal justice reform of the
early 2000s. This research focuses on the production,
interpretation, and implementation of rules and institutions by
exploring how different actors have employed the concept of victims
and victims' rights to promote their agendas in the context of
criminal justice reforms. It also analyzes how the goals of these
agendas have interplayed in practice. By the early 2000s, it seemed
that the Colombian criminal justice system was headed towards a
process characterized by broader victim participation, primarily
because of the doctrine of the Constitutional Court on victims'
rights. But in 2002, the Colombian Attorney General promoted a more
adversarial criminal justice reform. This book argues that this
reform represented a sudden and unpredicted reversal of the
Constitutional Court's doctrine on victim participation, even
though one of the central justifications for the reform was the
need to satisfy human rights standards and adhere to the
jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court on victims' rights. In
the criminal justice reform of the early 2000s and its subsequent
modifications, the promotion of a dichotomous interpretation of the
adversarial model-which conceived the criminal process as a
competition between prosecution and defense-served to limit victim
participation. This study examines how conceptions of victims'
rights emerged out of the struggles between different and at times
competing agendas. In the Colombian process of reform, victims'
rights have been invoked both as a justification for criminal
sanctions and as an explanation for crime prevention and
restorative justice. After assessing quantitative and qualitative
data, this book concludes that punitive approaches to victims'
rights have prevailed over restorative justice perspectives.
Furthermore, it argues that punitiveness in the criminal justice
system has not resulted in more protection for victims. Ultimately,
this research reveals that the adversarial criminal justice reform
of the early 2000s has not substantially improved the protection of
victims' rights in Colombia.
The study of the interaction between syntax and information
structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the
publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric
Vallduvi's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's
(1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form. The book inserts
itself in this contemporary interest by providing a collection of
articles on different aspects of the syntax-pragmatics interface in
the indigenous languages of The Americas. The first chapter
provides a brief introduction of the some of the basic descriptive
issues addressed in them, and of some of the theoretical tools that
have been developed to analyze them. The reader finds articles that
focus mostly on empirical issues, while others are mostly oriented
to theoretical issues. Diverse theoretical approaches are
addressed, including Minimalism, Optimality-theoretic syntax, and
Meaning-Text Theory. The volume includes articles on the following
topics: the grammatical means to encode pragmatic notions in
Tariana (A. Aikhenvald); the relation between clause structure and
information structure in Lushootseed (D. Beck); the split
distribution of null subjects in Shipibo (J. Camacho and J.
Elias-Ulloa); the syntactic structure of left-peripheral
discourse-related functions in Kuikuro (B. Franchetto and M.
Santos), an agglutinative and head final language; word order and
focus patterns in Yaqui (L. Guerrero and V. Belloro); SVO and
topicalization in Yucatec Maya (R. Gutierrez-Bravo and J.
Monforte); the structure of the left-periphery in Karaja (Maia) and
the interaction between the wh-words and polarity sensitivity in
Southern Quechua (L. Sanchez).
Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in
Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of
Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact
between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and
in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their
languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local
government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in
the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language
contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools,
code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties
of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena
affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker.
Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from
Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in
Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse
perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct
cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts.
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