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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... percent in terms of citizen approval, and many have approval rates ranging between 10 and 30 percent. See Martínez (1997, 21). The high scorers are Costa Rica and Uruguay. Peru's experience may be more typical. When Alberto Fujimori ...
... percent of the federal budget is campaigning for a constitutional earmark. It originally aimed at 6 percent, but later reduced its demands to 2.4. 17. This is often connected to the introduction of court fees, in part to discourage ...
... percent of those held in prison might still be awaiting trial.14 The problem was and is aggravated by a near absence of public defenders, who might have contested the detentions or at least worked to speed up the pretrial period.15 ...
... percent more for its criminal justice system and resolving 20 percent fewer cases.31 The ceja study is most positive about the Chilean results but as of 2002 indicated that an enormous number of cases were stuck in the system.32 Few ...
... percent of those initially filed. Most of the rest are pleaded out. The defendant confesses to a lesser crime in return for a lesser penalty. Many Latin Americans and many U.S. citizens consider that practice unsatisfactory, for reasons ...
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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 |