Respuesta judicial a la demanda de celeridad: la flagrancia en la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

This work is proposed with the purpose of exploring how the flagrancy process has developed in the Province of Buenos Aires on the basis of official discourse, the observation of hearings and the testimonies of judicial players regarding the period of emergence (2005-2010). Our main thesis is that judicial delay, which is the backbone of the rationale for such process, has enabled disputes and claims over the performance of criminal justice to be focused on the actions rather than on the knowledge of legal operators, specifically, when attention is paid to the narratives from both legislative debates and documents of NGOs involved in the appearance of this process. What seems to prevail is the position that justice members are not unaware of the consequences of their work or, in other words, that they know very well what they are doing, but yet still carry through. This means that the priority when addressing slowness shall not be given for the purpose of raising awareness among judicial players, but to achieve a change in their practice, and the process of flagrancy is a clear example of this.