Valeria Vegh Weis
Biographic Data
| ID | 251699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valeria Vegh Weis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valeria Vegh |
| FAMILY NAME | Weis |
| SIGNATURE | WEIS V V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4156-0840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Southern State Crime Criminology
The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South
What Can be Done if Perpetrators are Dead or Protected by Impunity Laws
This article builds on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law (CAICL) scholarship to contribute to the decolonial turn in international criminal justice. To do so, this empirically grounded article examines the decolonial critique of international criminal justice and uses the case of Argentina to show how victims’ organizations have developed original initiatives (‘escraches’, tr…
Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism: A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina
Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism? A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina While restorative justice has been extensively growing in democratic settings, less explored is its connection with transitional justice or, in other words, there have been insufficient attempts to explore the possibility of applying restorative justice mechanisms in c…
Argentina’s Commitment to International Criminal Justice to Address the Crimes of the Last Dictatorship (1976–1983)
This article will explain how Argentina developed a strong commitment to international criminal justice to address the crimes of the last dictatorship (1976–1983) that transcended the local dimension and shaped the field globally. In particular, the article will focus on three specific dimensions: the disputes surrounding the concept of ‘dirty war’ in relation to the crimes committed in the 1970s and how its legal conceptualisation has evolved ov…
The ping-pong strategy: Confronting Atrocities From the Exile
Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South
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. Indeed, more and more popular political leaders in the region are being imprisoned or prosecuted, even while in power. Inacio Lula da Silva is the quintaessential case of this worrying process. Despite the centrality of this juridical-p…
Exploring the World’s First Successful Truth Commission: Argentina’s Conadep and the Role of Victims in Truth-Seeking
This article will present the case of Argentina and the conditions, struggles and social actors that made the establishment of the world’s first successful truth commission possible after the most recent dictatorship, in power between 1976 and 1983. This study is aimed at not only acknowledging the work of civil society organizations, who pressure powerholders to be responsive to victims’ concerns, but to argue that victims’ organizations were th…
La Prefectura Naval Argentina y el «Cambio de Paradigma» en la Persecución de la Pesca Ilegal. Una mirada desde las Criminologías Verde y Azul
El artículo se posiciona desde las criminologías verde y azul para analizar la problemática de la pesca ilegal en la Argentina. Con base en el estudio de instrumentos normativos y entrevistas, el estudio aborda el rol de la Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA) dentro de la zona económica exclusiva (ZEE) y más allá de la milla 200 frente al accionar pesquero lesivo por parte de buques extranjeros. Por un lado, el artículo se enfoca en el uso del derec…
What does Lawfare mean in Latin America? A new framework for understanding the criminalization of progressive political leaders
This article addresses the origins of the term lawfare, as well as different definitions developed in the Global North and the Global South while proposing a conceptualization linked to the particularities of this socio-legal phenomenon in Latin America. Focusing on the cases of Brazil and Argentina the article deploys the notions of phycological, judicial and media warfare to analyze the different dimensions that an analysis of lawfare opens in …
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime
More than 75 million people were killed in wars, dictatorships and civil conflicts in the 20th century alone. To date, states and international organizations have been regarded as the reliable entities for addressing these atrocities. However, these agencies are often perpetrators (or bystanders) that even deny their crimes. Based on a southern criminology approach, the article examines whether challenging atrocities becomes more feasible if orga…
La Memoria como Narrativa para la No Repetición: Reflexiones acerca de las transiciones en Colombia y Argentina
El artículo aborda la conexión entre el proceso transicional y la generación de una narrativa colectiva sobre las violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas en Colombia, con eje en el rol crucial de las organizaciones de víctimas y organismos de derechos humanos en el proceso. La primera parte del artículo propone la noción de narrativa transicional que se puede analizar, a su vez, como narrativas fidedignas o narrativas falsas (desde el plano fác…
Covid-19 and the U.S. Health Care Industry: Towards a “Critical Health Criminology” within State Crime Studies
The core claim of this article is that critical criminology offers us an especially potent framework for interpreting state-corporate crime with the health care industry in the United States as one illustrative case, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The unprecedented, surreal pandemic crisis that surfaced in 2020 brought into especially sharp relief many of the core claims of critical criminology in relation to domination, ineq…
Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil
There is a dearth of criminological scholarship on how the political persuasions of governments affect Indigenous people as it relates to human rights and environmental consequences, whether positive or negative, for Indigenous peoples. To address this gap, we develop a comparative instrumental case study of the policies concerning Indigenous peoples implemented during two political periods in Brazil: the administrations of presidents Silva (2003…
Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The phrases, “essential businesses” and “essential jobs,” emerged at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about and reflecting concerns over which goods, services, and workers were necessary to prevent societal collapse. In an attempt to continue to probe “essentiality,” this article coins the term “essential crimes” to refer to those socially injurious acts and omissions that are part and parcel of a global neoliberal capita…
A Marxist Perspective on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This chapter examines the theoretical contributions of Marx and Engels as a framework for analysing the historical evolution of the idea of inequality within the domestic and international legal frameworks in capitalist societies. It discusses what can be referred to as a triple inequality in the legal frameworks that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in a historical context dominated by bourgeois revolutions. The new ruling class reli…
Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity, Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyze crime and punishment through the historical development of capitalism (15th Century to the present) in Europe and in the United States. The author puts forward the concepts of over-criminalization and under-criminalization to sh…
Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil
There is a dearth of criminological scholarship on how the political persuasions of governments affect Indigenous people as it relates to human rights and environmental consequences, whether positive or negative, for Indigenous peoples. To address this gap, we develop a comparative instrumental case study of the policies concerning Indigenous peoples implemented during two political periods in Brazil: the administrations of presidents Silva (2003…
Covid-19 and the U.S. Health Care Industry: Towards a “Critical Health Criminology” within State Crime Studies
The core claim of this article is that critical criminology offers us an especially potent framework for interpreting state-corporate crime with the health care industry in the United States as one illustrative case, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The unprecedented, surreal pandemic crisis that surfaced in 2020 brought into especially sharp relief many of the core claims of critical criminology in relation to domination, ineq…
What does Lawfare mean in Latin America? A new framework for understanding the criminalization of progressive political leaders
This article addresses the origins of the term lawfare, as well as different definitions developed in the Global North and the Global South while proposing a conceptualization linked to the particularities of this socio-legal phenomenon in Latin America. Focusing on the cases of Brazil and Argentina the article deploys the notions of phycological, judicial and media warfare to analyze the different dimensions that an analysis of lawfare opens in …
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime
More than 75 million people were killed in wars, dictatorships and civil conflicts in the 20th century alone. To date, states and international organizations have been regarded as the reliable entities for addressing these atrocities. However, these agencies are often perpetrators (or bystanders) that even deny their crimes. Based on a southern criminology approach, the article examines whether challenging atrocities becomes more feasible if orga…
Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The phrases, “essential businesses” and “essential jobs,” emerged at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about and reflecting concerns over which goods, services, and workers were necessary to prevent societal collapse. In an attempt to continue to probe “essentiality,” this article coins the term “essential crimes” to refer to those socially injurious acts and omissions that are part and parcel of a global neoliberal capita…
Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity, Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyze crime and punishment through the historical development of capitalism (15th Century to the present) in Europe and in the United States. The author puts forward the concepts of over-criminalization and under-criminalization to sh…
A Marxist Perspective on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This chapter examines the theoretical contributions of Marx and Engels as a framework for analysing the historical evolution of the idea of inequality within the domestic and international legal frameworks in capitalist societies. It discusses what can be referred to as a triple inequality in the legal frameworks that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in a historical context dominated by bourgeois revolutions. The new ruling class reli…
La Memoria como Narrativa para la No Repetición: Reflexiones acerca de las transiciones en Colombia y Argentina
El artículo aborda la conexión entre el proceso transicional y la generación de una narrativa colectiva sobre las violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas en Colombia, con eje en el rol crucial de las organizaciones de víctimas y organismos de derechos humanos en el proceso. La primera parte del artículo propone la noción de narrativa transicional que se puede analizar, a su vez, como narrativas fidedignas o narrativas falsas (desde el plano fác…
Covid-19 and the U.S. Health Care Industry: Towards a “Critical Health Criminology” within State Crime Studies
The core claim of this article is that critical criminology offers us an especially potent framework for interpreting state-corporate crime with the health care industry in the United States as one illustrative case, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The unprecedented, surreal pandemic crisis that surfaced in 2020 brought into especially sharp relief many of the core claims of critical criminology in relation to domination, ineq…
Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil
There is a dearth of criminological scholarship on how the political persuasions of governments affect Indigenous people as it relates to human rights and environmental consequences, whether positive or negative, for Indigenous peoples. To address this gap, we develop a comparative instrumental case study of the policies concerning Indigenous peoples implemented during two political periods in Brazil: the administrations of presidents Silva (2003…
Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The phrases, “essential businesses” and “essential jobs,” emerged at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about and reflecting concerns over which goods, services, and workers were necessary to prevent societal collapse. In an attempt to continue to probe “essentiality,” this article coins the term “essential crimes” to refer to those socially injurious acts and omissions that are part and parcel of a global neoliberal capita…
What does Lawfare mean in Latin America? A new framework for understanding the criminalization of progressive political leaders
This article addresses the origins of the term lawfare, as well as different definitions developed in the Global North and the Global South while proposing a conceptualization linked to the particularities of this socio-legal phenomenon in Latin America. Focusing on the cases of Brazil and Argentina the article deploys the notions of phycological, judicial and media warfare to analyze the different dimensions that an analysis of lawfare opens in …
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime
More than 75 million people were killed in wars, dictatorships and civil conflicts in the 20th century alone. To date, states and international organizations have been regarded as the reliable entities for addressing these atrocities. However, these agencies are often perpetrators (or bystanders) that even deny their crimes. Based on a southern criminology approach, the article examines whether challenging atrocities becomes more feasible if orga…
Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South
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. Indeed, more and more popular political leaders in the region are being imprisoned or prosecuted, even while in power. Inacio Lula da Silva is the quintaessential case of this worrying process. Despite the centrality of this juridical-p…
Exploring the World’s First Successful Truth Commission: Argentina’s Conadep and the Role of Victims in Truth-Seeking
This article will present the case of Argentina and the conditions, struggles and social actors that made the establishment of the world’s first successful truth commission possible after the most recent dictatorship, in power between 1976 and 1983. This study is aimed at not only acknowledging the work of civil society organizations, who pressure powerholders to be responsive to victims’ concerns, but to argue that victims’ organizations were th…
La Prefectura Naval Argentina y el «Cambio de Paradigma» en la Persecución de la Pesca Ilegal. Una mirada desde las Criminologías Verde y Azul
El artículo se posiciona desde las criminologías verde y azul para analizar la problemática de la pesca ilegal en la Argentina. Con base en el estudio de instrumentos normativos y entrevistas, el estudio aborda el rol de la Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA) dentro de la zona económica exclusiva (ZEE) y más allá de la milla 200 frente al accionar pesquero lesivo por parte de buques extranjeros. Por un lado, el artículo se enfoca en el uso del derec…
Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism: A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina
Can Indigenous truth commissions overcome the legacies and contemporary effects of colonialism? A study on the Australian-Canadian experience to explore possible paths in Argentina While restorative justice has been extensively growing in democratic settings, less explored is its connection with transitional justice or, in other words, there have been insufficient attempts to explore the possibility of applying restorative justice mechanisms in c…
Argentina’s Commitment to International Criminal Justice to Address the Crimes of the Last Dictatorship (1976–1983)
This article will explain how Argentina developed a strong commitment to international criminal justice to address the crimes of the last dictatorship (1976–1983) that transcended the local dimension and shaped the field globally. In particular, the article will focus on three specific dimensions: the disputes surrounding the concept of ‘dirty war’ in relation to the crimes committed in the 1970s and how its legal conceptualisation has evolved ov…
The ping-pong strategy: Confronting Atrocities From the Exile
The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South
What Can be Done if Perpetrators are Dead or Protected by Impunity Laws
This article builds on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law (CAICL) scholarship to contribute to the decolonial turn in international criminal justice. To do so, this empirically grounded article examines the decolonial critique of international criminal justice and uses the case of Argentina to show how victims’ organizations have developed original initiatives (‘escraches’, tr…
Introduction: Southern State Crime Criminology
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Human rights (4 works)