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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... less expensive undertaking, it is usually in as bad, if not worse, shape and likewise must be improved if the new system is to work. Defense requires a less complex organization than the police or prosecution, but it does require one ...
... less exhaustive requirements for bringing a case to trial or even, for that matter, for requesting a search warrant. For the police, the situation is still worse. Absent an overall reform as in El Salvador, or the existence or creation ...
... less. Nonetheless, this has been the promise in various countries. In Peru, for example, it was reported that a “Chilean expert” had determined that the new procedures would not only be more cost effective; they would also cost less ...
... less agreement on what could be used to indicate their achievement. There is also far less consensus among the reform group as to their relative merits. No one argues that crime control is undesirable, though there may be questions ...
... less enamored of the accent on efficiency. They commonly argue that they are already overburdened with work and that the only solution is more judges and more courtrooms. This presupposes that, whatever number of cases they normally ...
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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 |