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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... problems, and keeping judges happy. Activities have also been designed or subverted to produce results quite contrary to their assumed purpose. Modifications in appointment and tenure systems provide means of stacking the bench with ...
... problems arising from the compartmentalized pursuit of goals. The sequencing varies from that of the chart, instead ... problem” will be discussed in more detail. Even if those responsible do not seem to know where they are heading ...
... problem was and is aggravated by a near absence of public defenders, who might have contested the detentions or at least worked to speed up the pretrial period.15 Prison statistics are not reliable, an indication of a series of other ...
... problem, meaning that those with money to pay bribes can avoid any involvement while those without funds become the ... problems breaking. 20. See Hammergren (1998e, 120–25) for a discussion of these practices in Peru. 21. See Maier et ...
... problems. Codes written from a due process perspective sometimes interfere with effective investigation and prosecution. The conflicts are not inevitable. The problem is that the additional needs were never taken into account in any ...
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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 |