The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America

By - Brinks, Daniel M

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008

ISBN 10 - 0521872340

ISBN 13 - 9780521872348

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - history of America

Shelf No - 18

Call Number - 344.8052 BRI

Physical Description - xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes index and reference

Book Information

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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