Juicios por jurado: democratización y legitimación de la justicia. Un nuevo paradigma

Abstract

The institution of trial by jury could be considered as the "crux" for the observation of the processes of change that are taking place in the legal customs in Argentina. In the face of the intense processes of restructuring of social relations underway, the need to rebuild the legitimacy of judges in the eyes of public opinion has become urgent, and recourse to popular participation in the judicial field appears as a useful tool for this purpose. The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether people's distrust in the judicial system, and the lack of legitimacy in it, affects the verdicts of jury courts. This paper proposes to analyze the democratization of justice as a phenomenon that can bridge the gap between the judicial system and the common people