Atrocity Without Punishment

Juan Espíndola is Associate Professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research in the national Autonomous University of Mexico. He is the author of Transitional Justice After German Reunification (2015), and El hombre que lo podía todo (2004).

"This is the only work that I know of that even attempts to put forward a constructive ethical and political proposal around Mexico's judicial normative order for the punishment for serious crimes. Written with an impressive combination of philosophical rigor, conceptual originality, and a well-informed and analytically acute understanding of the real-world conditions in which it is intervening, this book is everywhere and all-the-way-through admirably synthetic and precise, and it can serve well as a summary and synthesis of what, specifically, is the problem of criminal justice in contemporary Mexico." —Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University and author of Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico "Through a careful consideration of Mexicos recent drug-related violence and incarceration, Atrocity Without Punishment craftily turns rational, practical, and necessary the apparent inexplicability of humanness and compassion." —Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, The University of Chicago "This book skillfully shows how to discuss the morality of leniency and punishment in the real world. It should be widely read by every political theorist interested in making ethical theory take seriously the realities of politics."—Paulina Ochoa Espejo, University of Virginia