Beschreibung:
Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni is Secretary General of the Latin American Association of Criminology and Criminal Law, and Vice President of the International Association of Criminal Law. In 2009 he received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He served as a Justice of the Argentine Supreme Court, and as the General Director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. He is the author of Criminology and Criminal Policy Movements and La Palabra de los Muertos among many other books.
In Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South, Zaffaroni, Caamaño and Vegh Weis offer an account of the misuse of the law to criminalize progressive political leaders in Latin America.
Foreword to the Spanish Edition Lula da Silva