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The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law by Daniel M. Brinks (Hardcover, 2007)

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 analyses of individual violations and prosecutions and quantitative analyses of broad patterns within and across jurisdictions. The book offers a structured comparison of police, prosecutorial, and judicial institutions in each location, and shows that analyses of any one of these organizations in isolation misses many of the essential dynamics that underlie an effective system of justice.

Subject Area
Political Sociology, Civil Service
Author
Daniel M. Brinks
Publication Name
The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
302 Pages

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