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The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America

The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America

Hardcover

General LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521872340
ISBN13: 9780521872348
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 22 2007
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.45
Language: English
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.

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