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CORDOVA ESPARZA, Karen Edith. The penal system and meanings of justice. A sociocultural analysis of the interpretation and construction of legal facts in oral trials in Querétaro, Mexico. Intersticios sociales [online]. 2022, n.24, pp.333-364.  Epub 26-Set-2022. ISSN 2007-4964.

This article analyzes the practices of justice performed by state agents during oral criminal trials in an effort to elucidate the role played by the juridical sensibilities of the traditional penal system in interpretations of the laws and principles of the accusatory penal system and their influence in constructing juridical facts. The penal system is observed from a sociocultural perspective using a methodology based on ethnographic fieldwork. The study was carried out in the criminal courts of the judicial district of Querétaro, Mexico. The article is divided into three sections. The first outlines the process of implementing penal reform, while the second and third present the sociocultural analysis of the oral hearings witnessed.

Palavras-chave : criminal system; oral courts; culture; law.