Evaluación de la operación del servicio de justicia en Colombia y la incidencia de factores económicos y sociales en el período 2010 a 2015

Abstract

Colombia is a unitary Republic established as a social state of law from the constitution of 1991, its extension is 1,141,748 km2 and it has approximately 50 million habitants. Article 229 of the National Constitution states, unlike the 1886 constitution, that "the right of every person to access the administration of justice is guaranteed" with which the procedural terms would be diligently observed. In the Judicial Branch, nearly three million new judicial processes are initiated each year. Organizations independent of the state, such as the Corporation for Excellence in Justice and DeJusticia, conclude that failures in the functioning and operation of justice have repercussions on citizen trust and on the incentives to access the system which prevents the materialization of Access to Justice. This text reports the evaluation of the efficiency of the procedural flow of the justice service in Colombia and links it to the presence of economic and social factors. The investigative perspective is a mixed type of descriptive and explanatory character, and the mathematical programming technique Data Envelopment Analysis is used, which serves to find efficiency, gaps and shortages at the departmental level, since it is the minimum territorial unit recognized by the constitution regarding to the provision of justice services.