In rural Peru, they explained, if you are a victim of a crime and you want the law enforcement system to seek justice on your behalf, you have to pay for it. Period. José and Richard acknowledge this can sound strange for people from the developed world, where relatively well-financed public justice systems pay for police investigators, prosecutors and examining magistrates to seek justice on behalf of the victims of violent crime—indeed, in developed countries these violent offenses are considered a crime against the state. But in Peru—and much of the developing world—these services must be
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