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Irrational Efforts: Criminal Investigations of Homicide and other Complex Crimes

The Colombian Attorney General’s Office´s quantitative records show that investigative efforts are employed irrationally. The absence of a strategic prioritization policy —as opposed to the unclear and arbitrary way officials currently process cases— does not allow criminal policy efforts to focus on investigating the most important cases.

 

The Colombian Attorney General’s Office´s quantitative records show that investigative efforts are employed irrationally. The absence of a strategic prioritization policy —as opposed to the unclear and arbitrary way officials currently process cases— does not allow criminal policy efforts to focus on investigating the most important cases.

In this text we make an evaluation of the criminal investigation of crimes that are not easy to solve. On the one hand we analyze the way in which the criminal system gives prevalence to some other criminal phenomena. Subsequently, we focused on the investigation of willful homicide, which although in some countries is not one of the crimes with the greatest impact, Colombia continues to have a very high prevalence and, at the same time, very low results in its prosecution.


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