Envisioning Reform: Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin AmericaJudicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” institutional reforms. Although considerable progress has been made already in strengthening the judiciary and its supporting infrastructure (police, prosecutors, public defense counsel, the private bar, law schools, and the like), much remains to be done. Linn Hammergren’s book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America over the past two decades and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals. After Part I’s overview of the reform movement’s history since the 1980s, Part II examines five approaches that have been taken to judicial reform, tracing their intellectual origins, historical and strategic development, the roles of local and international participants, and their relative success in producing positive change. Part III builds on this evaluation of the five partial approaches by offering a synthetic critique aimed at showing how to turn approaches into strategies, how to ensure they are based on experiential knowledge, and how to unite separate lines of action. |
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... collection that most deters investors. These issues will be revisited in subsequent chapters. The point for now is that the arguments about economic impacts behind the mdbs' and other actors' entrance into judicial reform in general and ...
... collection of evidence. Where prosecutors and investigating judges bothered to gather their own evidence, they usually did “desk investigations,” relying heavily on the contents of the police charge sheet (expediente policial) to guide ...
... collected as a result of prohibited practices is automatically excluded. Some codes have been revised to retract a few protections.23 Others never included them. Under Colombia's first new criminal procedures code (1991), prosecutors ...
... collected and presented in written form. If anyone thought oral trials would eliminate the possibility of manipulation of evidence, they have only to look at the first such event held in Guatemala in 1994. There were charges of bribes ...
... collect their own evidence. Police. 41. The Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas (ceja) evaluations do make some attempt to do this, but it is very narrow. Costs are measured only in terms of budgetary allocations, and ...
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Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren Limited preview - 2010 |
Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn A. Hammergren No preview available - 2007 |