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ÉTAT DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS EN LAS RELACIONES FAMILIARES

A decade and a half before, a researcher from the University of Guadalajara (Acosta, 2000)
came to the same conclusions for the Jalisco case:

We thus have the validity of an extended culture of illegality, or of sublegality, which is based

on the belief that justice and law are opposite concepts, contradictory, or at least confused.

The law is good if it benefits me, if not, it is unfair; Better a bad fix than a good fight. And a
long tradition of simulation, informality and corruption, of discretional application of the

law by the authorities, are of course behind the citizens' beliefs about their doubts as to

whether the legal is fair, or is its antithesis.

This is so, because for us the term impunity has a double meaning: on the one hand, the
absence of punishment or penalization to those responsible for the commission of crimes,

including acts of corruption; and, on the other, the existence of a sector of privileged or

"untouchable", who never comes to touch the long arm of the law.

Recapitulating, public insecurity, government performance away from the results that society

legitimately demands and impunity and corruption are inextricably linked phenomena that
undermine the legitimacy of the State itself and call into question the undeniable advances in

the field of democracy and the rule of law. Although, even more worrisome, it is the culture

of transgression that, in the absence of a personal conviction in the law as a regulator of
social life and the conviction that the authorities themselves do not comply with the

regulatory framework, severely question the pact social and, therefore, the viability of a

nation project.

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