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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... statistics are not reliable, an indication of a series of other problems of prison management. Still, there are endless examples of individuals being left in pretrial detention for years, often far longer than the maximum sentence had ...
... statistics indicate a median time for case disposition far longer than the period for which the code has been in effect. Regardless of the code's details, the level of preparation, or the implementation strategy, the process has been ...
... statistics they used, they had to depend on the goodwill of the district courts, because they had no power to demand them. Planning and forecasting were unknown, and budgeting was strictly on a cash-flow basis. The major interest of the ...
... of rationalizing and improving court information management strategies—including both judicial statistics and case-tracking systems. 22. World Bank (2002b). 23. Individual trial judges commonly average judicial modernization 63.
... statistics on delays any longer, it is impossible to tell whether the replication has met with success in that area. A study of 1998 filings in Lima's trial and justice of the peace courts indicates that both had a much better record ...
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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 |