The judicial response to police killings in Latin America
By: Daniel M. Brinks.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521872348
Subjects: Police shootings -- Argentina; Police shootings -- Brazil; Police shootings -- Uruguay
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Effectiveness and inequality in the legal system; title: Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; title: Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions; title: Buenos Aires : political interference and informational dependence; title: São Paulo : normative autonomy and informational failures; title: Uruguay : strong results from a weak system; title: C"rdoba : high levels of inequality in a strong system; title: Salvador da Bahia : social cleansing under political and judicial indifference; title: Binding leviathan.