THE JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO POLICE KILLINGS IN LATIN AMERICA by Daniel M. Brinks ( 9780521872348 )

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THE JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO POLICE KILLINGS IN LATIN AMERICA
INEQUALITY AND THE RULE OF LAW

By:

Daniel M. Brinks

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0521872340

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 October, 2007

Pages:

302

Description:

This book examines the effect of social inequality, political influence and institutional design on the effectiveness of Latin American legal systems.

Synopsis:

This book documents the corrosive effect of social exclusion on democracy and the rule of law. It shows how marginalization prevents citizens from effectively engaging even the best legal systems, how politics creeps into prosecutorial and judicial decision making, and how institutional change is often nullified by enduring contextual factors. It also shows how some institutional arrangements can overcome these impediments. The argument is based on extensive field work and original data on the investigation and prosecution of more than 500 police homicides in five legal systems in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. It includes both qualitative analyses of individual violations and prosecutions and quantitative analyses of broad patterns within and across jurisdictions. The book offers a structured comparison of police, prosecutorial, and judicial institutions in each location, and shows that analyses of any one of these organizations in isolation misses many of the essential dynamics that underlie an effective system of justice.

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Cambridge University Press

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