The judicial response to police killings in Latin America / Daniel M. Brinks.
2008
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The judicial response to police killings in Latin America / Daniel M. Brinks.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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Effectiveness and inequality in the legal system
Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions
Buenos Aires : political interference and informational dependence
Sa⁺ёo Paulo : normative autonomy and informational failures
Uruguay : strong results from a weak system
C"rdoba : high levels of inequality in a strong system
Salvador da Bahia : social cleansing under political and judicial indifference
Binding leviathan.
Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions
Buenos Aires : political interference and informational dependence
Sa⁺ёo Paulo : normative autonomy and informational failures
Uruguay : strong results from a weak system
C"rdoba : high levels of inequality in a strong system
Salvador da Bahia : social cleansing under political and judicial indifference
Binding leviathan.
Summary
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 Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511551130 ebook
9780521872348 (hardback)
9781107405097 (paperback)
9780521872348 (hardback)
9781107405097 (paperback)
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