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The Geography of Justice: Assessing Local Justice in Colombia’s Post-Conflict Phase Cover

The Geography of Justice: Assessing Local Justice in Colombia’s Post-Conflict Phase

Open Access
|Jul 2015

Figures & Tables

Map 1

Presence of Judges. Source: Superior Judicial Council (Consejo Superior de la Judicatura – CSJ), National Administrative Statistics Department (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica - DANE), Agustin Codazzi Geography Institute (Instituto Geografico Agustin Codazzi– IGAC) (2012).

Map 2

Provisional Nature of Justice Offices. Source: Sectional judicial councils (Consejos seccionales de la judicature) (2013). Authors’ own calculations.

Map 3

Efficacy. Source: AGO (Fiscalía General de la Nación). Authors’ own calculations.

Table 1

Municipalities by levels of local justice performance.

LevelNumber of municipalities% Municipalities
Very low13616%
Low23928%
Medium35642%
High9711 %
Very high202 %
Total848100 %
Map 4

Local justice performance. Source: SJC/AGO, own calculations.

Graph 1

Density of crops and levels of local justice performance. Source: SIMCI 2012; Authors’calculations.

Graph 2

Average displacement rate by categories of local justice performance. Source: Vice President’s Office 2005–2011. Authors’ calculations.

Table 2

Presence of illegal armed groups broken down in years between 2000 and 2012.

Category of justiceNumber of years with illegal groups presence 2000–2012
GuerrillaParamilitaries (2000–2006)BACRIM (2007–2012)
Very high1.300
High2.91.031.8
Medium4.21.682.69
Low5.31.662.3
Very low5.11.42.3
Graph 3

Percentage of Afro-Colombians and indigenous people by municipality by category of local justice performance. Source: Dane 2012. Authors’ calculations.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/sta.gc | Journal eISSN: 2165-2627
Language: English
Published on: Jul 24, 2015
Published by: Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2015 Mauricio García-Villegas, Jose Rafael Espinosa, published by Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.