Brownbag on the 29.06.2021: Dr. Stefan Krauth about "Peripheral Criminal Injustice."

Peripheral Criminal Injustice.

How International Support for Criminal Procedure Reform in Ecuador

Worsened an already Weak Penal System.

VICESSE Brown Bag Seminar mit Stefan Krauth am 29. Juni 2021, 18:00, Paulanergasse 4/8

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Abstract:

The talk explores the complex outcomes of the latest reform of the criminal procedure in Ecuador to show how US-led interventions resulted in massive incarceration while the underlying criminal procedures are systematically violating due process. Today, the Ecuadorian judiciary appears to work more efficiently, while law enforcement remains highly selective and the penal system remains weak with regard to judicial independence, fair trial and the quality of its reasoning. Still, the police control what is perceived as delinquency. Law enforcement is directed selectively to petty offences while systematically producing impunity for severe offences. Thus, the reforms exacerbated the weaknesses of Ecuador's criminal justice system.

Our findings shed light on complex and unintended outcomes of the wave of adversarial reforms in the region that have yet not been studied empirically.

Stefan Krauth earned a Ph.D. in Law from University of Bremen, Germany, and worked on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development between 2017 and 2020 as an expert in criminal law for the Public Defender’s Office and the Office of Human Rights in Ecuador.

Presentation and Doscussion will be held in German.
Vortrag und Diskussion in deutscher Sprache.