Introduction:

The present document contemplates the dogmatic review of the victim law and its historical evolution in Mexico, through the constitutional reforms generated since 1993, as well as the study of the essential elements of integral reparation and its connection with the fundamental right of dignity human consecrated at federal and international level, in order to lay the analytical basis on the institutionalization of revictimization in Mexico on the occasion of ambiguity in the design of the General Victims Law regarding the timely establishment of the legitimate authority to guarantee integral reparation, a circumstance that distorts the manifest obligation of the Mexican State to generate public policies that protect human dignity.

Method:

From the perspective of systematic legal and comparative methods, we reflect on the particularities of victim law as a binding point with the essential elements of integral reparation and the concept of revictimization promoted by the Comprehensive Model of Victim Assistance, an end of generate a guiding thread with the explanation about institutionalized revictimization product of the normative ambiguity in the signaling of the subjects obliged to monitor for the fulfillment of the integral reparation by the ministry of the General Law of Victims in their last reform of 2017, circumstance that It does not conform to the postulates of a public policy with a human rights perspective inherent in the glorified protectionist spirit, through constitutional reforms in criminal and human rights matters.

Results:

The normative design of the General Victims Law promoted by the Mexican State enshrines an institutional revictimization caused by ambiguity in the precise signaling of the authorities in charge of monitoring the fulfillment of integral reparation, a situation that transcends the fundamental right of human dignity established in Article 1 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States; Articles 5.2 and 11.1 of the American Convention on Human Rights; Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and, article 10.1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, substantial elements of International Human Rights Law.

Discussion or Conclusion:

In order to guarantee the effective protection of the fundamental right of human dignity, the Mexican State must specify in numeral 1 of the General Law of Victims, the legitimate authorities to verify compliance with the right to integral reparation, that is, the punctualization of the obligated subjects that must respond for the breach of the legal duty imposed by the ordinance in comment, the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States and the international treaties ad hoc as an irreducible standard of public policies with a human rights approach.

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