Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Prevents Criminal Wars in New Democracies - Softcover

Guillermo, Trejo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009667734 ISBN 13: 9781009667739

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Explores how transitional justice processes that break state impunity for atrocities prevent criminal violence in new democracies.

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About the Authors

Guillermo Trejo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Director of the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He studies criminal and political violence, human rights, and transitional justice. Trejo is the co-author of Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (2020, with Sandra Ley) and the author of Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico (2012).

Lucía Tiscornia is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin and Faculty Fellow at the Geary Institute for Public Policy. She studies police and criminal violence, criminal governance, transitional justice, and mixed-methods approaches to research.

Juan Albarracín is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He studies criminal governance/politics, criminal and political violence, transitional justice, and electoral politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009667734
• ISBN 13: 9781009667739
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408