Criminal Law and Human Rights: Critical Analysis of the Punitive Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

This book offers a critical view of the punitive bias in the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, demonstrating the delicate relationship between Criminal Law and Human Rights.Based on cases involving the performance of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in situations in which States failed to punish perpetrators of crimes - and, consequently, victims were considered unprotected by domestic law -, judicial constructions are presented that punish such conduct by States, regardless of principles and values ??of individual guarantee aimed at protecting citizens against the punitive power of the State. Throughout the book, the characteristics of the Inter-American System of Human Rights and how cases submitted to it are handled are analyzed.It presents the relationship between criminal matters and the protection of Human Rights in International Law, highlighting their points of intersection.Then, based on the analysis of selected cases (many of which occurred during