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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... group. In conducting survey research on attitudes toward citizen security, his team found that inhabitants of London felt more threatened by crime than those in Caracas. As the researchers knew both cities, they found the results odd ...
... groups traditionally excluded from their benefits. Rather surprisingly, this had not come up earlier except in efforts to provide legal assistance to indigent criminal defendants. Probably, it took a turn to noncriminal justice to ...
... groups, either national stakeholders or international allies. Table 1 lays out some of the most common goals and related activities. In descending order, they are presented from the least to most instrumental in focus. The objectives ...
... groups, for rights protection, equitable treatment, and effective conflict resolution Improved criminal justice system to decrease human rights violations and improve citizen security Enhancing the judiciary's ability to deal with ...
... group of citizens with one or more judges. Although the investigation lies largely with one individual, both the prosecutor, a member of the public ministry, and defense counsel have access to the findings and can make their own ...
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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 |