Popular Jurors
The Popular Jurors began to be implemented in the Province of Córdoba in 2005, with the central aim of providing transparency to judicial processes and decisions. Similar structures have subsequently been initiated in the Provinces of Neuquén, Buenos Aires and Río Negro. The Popular Jurors allow the participation of representatives of different sectors of society in the processes of justice, including their points of view and experiences, seeking in this way to provide greater impartiality to the prosecution processes. By means of Provincial Law 9182 (Córdoba), Law 2784 (Neuquén) and Law 14589 (Buenos Aires), the public juries decide together with the magistrates on the existence of criminal and / or qualifying circumstances, the participation and criminal responsibility of the accused, and any corresponding compensation. Particular questions of a technical-legal nature and determination of the amount of the penalty, however, remain outside the responsibility of the Popular Jurors.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- sporadic
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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