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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... abuses by other governmental actors, branches of government Increased accessibility to wider range of social groups, for rights protection, equitable treatment, and effective conflict resolution Improved criminal justice system to ...
... abuses and enhancing crime control), the reforms. 1. See Llobet (1993), Maier et al. (1993), Baytelman (2002), Correa (1999). The province of Córdoba, Argentina, enacted a criminal procedures code in 1939, which is regarded as the first ...
... abuses and enhancing crime control), the reforms demonstrate a certain substitution of means for ends. Rather than being equated with the production of these downstream impacts, success is often measured by the extent to which new ...
... abuses as the defensor de oWcio system. Such counsel either neglect their clients or charge illegal fees. 16. These problems are discussed in detail in Chapter 3. 17. During the early 1990s in El Salvador, donor staff criminal justice ...
... abuses and fewer completed cases. The law, existing practices, and the criminal justice personnel were rarely up to the new challenges. It is thus not surprising that critics sought solutions in altering the basic system. The question ...
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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 |