Sicariato

Sicariato or contract killing, conceptual precisions for an eventual classification (I)


By Jorge Rolón Luna*

Discussing hired assassination as a criminal type requires, for various reasons, special care with the terminology to be used. The conceptual problem, which does not admit exceptions – media, journalists, academics, even – leads to misunderstandings and perpetuates a vision of the phenomenon that prevents a suitable and necessary approach to understand and confront it. 

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