TY - JOUR T1 - Private Criminal Action and its implementation in Colombia. A1 - Chaves Peña, Edwin Manuel PB - Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores YR - 2013 UL - http://biblioteca.ararteko.eus/Record/dialnet-ar-18-ART0000647654 AB - The exercise of criminal action may be undertaken by the State, the social cluster, or a person who has suffered harm as a result of the crime. The latter possibility, called private action has been taken recently in Colombia through constitutional reform. Based on the foregoing, this article reviews the history of the concept of criminal action and the alternatives that emerge regarding its ownership. We also study the legal nature in national legislation has had the criminal and procedural intervention possibilities that have been granted to victims of crime in the last three Codes of Criminal Procedure and the judgments of the Constitutional Court more representative on the subject, up to the consecration of the private prosecution. Having established this, I will analyze the bill project that is currently being under examination in the House of Representatives by which is looking to regulate such institution, in order to describe its scope and to identify its gaps. KW - Public action KW - class action KW - private action KW - victim KW - legal asset KW - harmfulness KW - Acción pública KW - acción popular KW - Acción Privada KW - víctima KW - bien jurídico KW - lesividad ER -