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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... and so adopt a more collaborative approach to identifying what they collectively know and using it to improve their common efforts. PART I five approaches to judicial reform ONE criminal justice twenty years of reforms 23.
... efforts. Its placement here follows its historical lead. In this chapter, we review the situation prior to the reforms and its impact on shaping them, the evolution of the programs over time, their achievements, and the variety of ...
... efforts of the police investigators.6 The judge collects all relevant evidence in a written dossier (expediente) that becomes the basis on which another judge or panel of judges will decide the case. Although the trial judge or judges ...
... effort to evaluate those areas depended only on anecdotal evidence. Recently the Latin American Center for Judicial ... efforts have managed to make important changes both in how criminal justice is administered and with what results ...
... efforts to be at every crime scene tended to obstruct routine investigations.42 Salvadoran police could use more ... effort to describe them, but, in light of the human tendency to follow past habits until forced to change, it also is an ...
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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 |