(UN)RULE OF LAW AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED IN LATIN AMERICA by Juan Mendez (Editor), Guillermo O'Donnell (Editor), Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (Editor) ( 9780268043018 )

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(UN)RULE OF LAW AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED IN LATIN AMERICA

By:

Juan Mendez (Editor), Guillermo O'Donnell (Editor), Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (Editor)

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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS

Pub. date:

1 March, 1999

Edition:

New ed.

Series:

Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies No 4

Pages:

368

Description:

This study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a "democratic" state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor.

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This thorough discussion of the idea of "democracies without citizenship" in Latin America considers overcoming political violence and discrimination and analyzes various avenues to institutional judicial reform. The (Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America, as the fourth part of Project Latin America 2000 from the Helen Kellogg Institute, enlarges the understanding of significant political, economic, and social issues facing Latin America at the threshold of a new century.The contributors develop arguments around the Latin American system of law which only punishes the poor and marginalized. In addressing lawless violence, the contributors argue that it is no longer the democratic state that directly commits the abuses. Instead, it fails to control arbitrary practices of its own agents and to challenge those who flaunt disregard for the law. The collection demonstrates that it is impossible to separate judicial reform from human rights and argues that justice must be made accessible to the poor and that governments make a serious and comprehensive commitment to social reform.

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University of Notre Dame Press

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