| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Effectiveness and inequality in the legal system -- Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay -- Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions -- Buenos Aires : political interference and informational dependence -- São Paulo : normative autonomy and informational failures -- Uruguay : strong results from a weak system -- C"rdoba : high levels of inequality in a strong system -- Salvador da Bahia : social cleansing under political and judicial indifference -- Binding leviathan. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Police shootings -- Argentina.
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Police shootings. |
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Argentina. |
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Police shootings -- Brazil.
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Brazil. |
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Police shootings -- Uruguay.
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Uruguay. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brinks, Daniel M., 1961- Judicial response to police killings in Latin America. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521872348 0521872340 (DLC) 2007008792 (OCoLC)85833308 |
| ISBN |
9780511464881 (electronic book) |
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0511464886 (electronic book) |
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9780521872348 (hardback) |
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