The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law

ISBN-13: 9780521872348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 302 str.

Daniel M. Brinks

Opis

This book examines the effect of social inequality, political influence, and institutional design on the effectiveness of legal systems in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. It demonstrates the inequality existent in these systems, as well as the occasional successes. Its focus is on the criminal prosecution of violent police officers, but it draws implications for democracy, the rule of law, court functioning, and police violence. The book describes judicial, prosecutorial, and police structures and operation, as well as the nature of and response to lethal police violence in each location.

Recenzje

' … an innovative study that draws on both socio-legal studies and comparative politics and combines quantitative and qualitative analysis. It represents a highly significant contribution to the growing body of literature on democracy and the rule of law in Latin America.' Journal of Latin American Studies

Spis treści

1. Effectiveness and inequality in the legal system; 2. Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay; 3. Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions; 4. Buenos Aires - political interference and informational dependence; 5. Sao Paolo - normative autonomy and informational failures; 6. Uruguay - strong results from a weak system; 7. Cordoba - high levels of inequality in a strong system; 8. Salvador da Bahia - social cleansing under political and judicial indifference; 9. Binding leviathan.