Criminal justice and police in the process of the construction of state terrorism in Argentina
Abstract
State terrorism in Argentina began to take shape long before 24 march 1976 when the last military dictatorship initiated. Early stages of this process took place during the late 1950s and, mainly, during the 1960s. This article studies the role of police and criminal judges of the Buenos Aires Province in this preliminary stage during which State violence acquired a definite physiognomy. The emergence of various formal and informal scenarios in which police violence took place contributed to reinforcing the impunity of the law enforcement agents in the exercise of extra-judicial violence. Criminal judges at that time favored this state of affairs, intervening very little and even permitting such actions.
El Terrorismo de Estado en la Argentina comenzó mucho antes del 24 de marzo de 1976, cuando se inició la última dictadura militar en ese país. Las etapas tempranas de ese proceso tuvieron lugar durante la década de 1950 y, principalmente, durante los años sesenta. Este artículo estudia el rol de policías y jueces penales de la provincia de Buenos Aires durante aquellos momentos en los cuales la violencia estatal fue adquiriendo su fisonomía definitiva. El surgimiento de escenarios formales e informales en los cuales la violencia policial tuvo lugar, contribuyeron a reforzar la impunidad de los policías en el ejercicio de la violencia extra judicial. Los jueces criminales en ese momento favorecieron dicho estado de cosas, interviniendo muy poco e incluso permitiendo tales acciones.
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