Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America
Inequality and the Rule of Law
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 a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-46050-0
- EAN: 9780511460500
- Produktnummer: 13834692
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'816 KB
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