The judicial response to police killings in Latin America : inequality and the rule of law /
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| Author / Creator: | Brinks, Daniel M., 1961- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
| Description: | xi, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6650028 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Effectiveness and Inequality in the Legal System
- A. Overcoming Resistance
- B. The Problem of Police Violence
- C. The Dependent Variable: Legal Effectiveness
- D. Proposing an Explanation
- E. Implications for the Rule of Law
- 2. Charting Injustice in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
- A. Sources and Types of Data
- B. Comparing Violation Rates
- C. Comparing the Judicial Response to Violations
- D. The Likelihood of a Conviction Across and Within Jurisdictions
- 3. Informational and Normative Shifts Across Jurisdictions
- A. Open and Notorious Violations
- B. Effective Application of the Law: Normative and Information-Gathering Successes
- C. See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Normative and Informational Shifts in Buenos Aires
- D. Garbage In, Garbage Out: Normative Success Frustrated by Information-Gathering Failures
- E. Overview of Normative and Informational Failures
- 4. Buenos Aires - Political Interference and Informational Dependence
- A. Federal and Provincial Criminal Procedure
- B. Social Context
- C. The System's Sources of Information
- D. Prosecutors
- E. The Courts
- F. Summary
- 5. Sao Paulo - Normative Autonomy and Informational Failures
- A. The Brazilian Code of Criminal Procedure
- B. Social Context
- C. The System's Sources of Information
- D. Prosecutors
- E. The Courts
- F. Summary
- 6. Uruguay - Strong Results from a Weak System
- A. The Uruguayan Code of Criminal Procedure
- B. Social Context
- C. The System's Sources of Information
- D. Prosecutors
- E. The Courts
- F. Summary
- 7. Cordoba - High Levels of Inequality in a Strong System
- A. The Code of Criminal Procedure in Cordoba
- B. Social Context
- C. The System's Sources of Information
- D. Prosecutors
- E. The Courts
- F. Summary
- 8. Salvador da Bahia - Social Cleansing Under Political and Judicial Indifference
- A. The Code of Criminal Procedure
- B. Social Context
- C. The Investigative Police
- D. Civil Society Actors
- E. Prosecutors
- F. The Courts
- G. Summary
- 9. Binding Leviathan
- A. The Empirical Findings
- B. General Conclusions from the Empirical Findings
- C. Institutional Theory Revisited
- Appendix. Methods, Case Selection, and Sampling
- References
- Index