UID:
almahu_9947415070002882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511551130 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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 -- São 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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521872348
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551130
URL:
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