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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... important. Reform programs had not anticipated these problems and have yet. 13. See Wilson et al. (2004) on Costa Rica and Fuentes and Amaya (2001) on Colombia. Three other countries where court interference with government policy is a ...
... important here, because the U.S courts were the most advanced in court administration,33 and the United States at the time still dominated the field in donor assistance. As U.S. courts were themselves entering the computer age, it was ...
... important. Latin America's inquisitorial criminal procedures had been inherited from Spain and Portugal during the colonial period. Early independence (in the 1820s4) meant that their subsequent development continued on its own track ...
... importance to a confession. The police thus used any and all means at hand to extract one. Supervision of the police by investigative judges, or where they existed, prosecutors, was usually minimal. Prosecutors or instructional judges ...
... important changes both in how criminal justice is administered and with what results. Still, as the recent evaluations suggest, they are far from. 29. See Riego (2002) for a summary of the findings in the first four evaluations. J. E. ...
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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 |