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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... procedures (the use of abbreviated trials or plea bargaining) or enhance access (via alternative mechanisms) would ... procedure.55 As currently constituted, the process for placing an amparo also raises access issues. Lawyers ...
... procedures, rightsoriented training, subsidized legal services, popular legal education New procedures, strengthening of other sector institutions (police, prosecution), judicial training and protection Law modernization, training ...
... procedures code in 1939, which is regarded as the first step in the regional reform process. 2. Correa (1999) gives a good overview. See also Hammergren (1998a, 1998e), Popkin (2000), Spence and Vickers (1994), Spence et al. (1995), and ...
... procedures are adopted. Criminal justice is not the only partial reform where such strategic shortcuts have confused the issue of what would constitute success. It is, however, a very good example of these characteristics, for which ...
... procedures codes posed significant problems. Rules concerning compulsory pretrial detention (often for any crime with a penalty in excess of three years) and their exaggerated application produced a high proportion of unsentenced ...
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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 |