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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Linn A Hammergren |
ISBN: | 9780271033150 0271033150 9780271054681 0271054689 0271049286 9780271049281 |
OCLC Number: | 1105408435 |
Description: | 1 online resource (352 p. :) il. |
Contents: | Criminal justice reform : human rights, crime control, and other unlikely bedfellows -- Judicial modernization : increasing the efficiency and efficacy of court actions -- Developing a professional, institutionally independent judiciary -- Access to justice : legal assistance, special courts, alternative dispute resolution and beyond -- Strengthening the judiciary's role as a check on other branches of government -- Judicial reform as a problem of focus : why the parts don't add up to a coherent whole -- Improving the knowledge base for judicial reform programs -- Toward a new strategic model -- A political agenda for reforming the reforms. |
Responsibility: | Linn Hammergren. |
Abstract:
Judicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to "second generation" institutional reforms. Although considerable progress has been made already in strengthening the judiciary and its supporting infrastructure (police, prosecutors, public defense counsel, the private bar, law schools, and the like), much remains to be done. Linn Hammergren's book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America over the past two decades and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals. After Part I's overview of the reform movement's history since the 1980s, Part II examines five approaches that have been taken to judicial reform, tracing their intellectual origins, historical and strategic development, the roles of local and international participants, and their relative success in producing positive change. Part III builds on this evaluation of the five partial approaches by offering a synthetic critique aimed at showing how to turn approaches into strategies, how to ensure they are based on experiential knowledge, and how to unite separate lines of action.
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