Protecting Citizens or Punishing Criminals? Staying Vigilant in Mexico’s Drug War
Why do people support punitive justice policies? Our hunch was that citizens have multiple priorities when deciding how they want crime to be punished. They care about preventing future violence, but also value punishing criminals for the harm that they’ve done. And anger in the wake of outrageous forms of violence can cause citizens to place more value on making sure that criminals get punished, even at the cost of preventing future crime and the legality of the process.
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Military Intelligence Agencies Torture Dissidents’ Relatives in Venezuela
In a recent report by Human Rights Watch and Foro Penal, we analyzed information about cases of 32 people. We found that not only are intelligence agents detaining and torturing members of the military who are suspected of fomenting rebellion, but in some cases, they are also going after their families or other civilians when they can’t find the suspects. In most cases, members of DGCIM or the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) carried out the arrests.
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