Adaptación y persistencia del sistema penal en el distrito judicial de Querétaro, México. Una mirada desde la cultura jurídica

Abstract

We present an analysis of the legal culture of the penal field and its role in social changes, such as the reform for the implementation of the accusatory and oral system. From an ethnography in oral courts of the judicial district of Queretaro, we noted that the legal performance and the interpretation of the law maintained the borders with society, as a way for the persistence of the legal field. In the first section the notion of legal culture and social change is presented, in the second the mechanisms of adaptation of the legal field are exposed, and in the third we focus on the internal legal culture, and propose an analysis that combines performance and the judicial file for the study of legal change.