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Reforming the administration of justice in Mexico
Title
Reforming the administration of justice in Mexico / edited by Wayne A. Cornelius and David A. Shirk.
ISBN
0268022925 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268022921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press ; San Diego : Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, c2007.
Physical Description
xi, 523 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 05, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction : reforming the administration of justice in Mexico / David A. Shirk, Alejandra Ríos Cázares
Pt. 1. Crime and criminality in Mexico
The social construction of crime in Mexico / Robert Buffington
A historical perspective on crime in twentieth-century Mexico City / Pablo Piccato
The Mexican prison system / Elena Azaola, Marcelo Bergman
Pt. 2. Police and policing in Mexico
A profile of police forces in Mexico / Benjamin Nelson Reames
Criminal investigation and the subversion of the principles of the justice system in Mexico / Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona
The militarization of the Procuraduría General de la República : risks for Mexican democracy / Sigrld Arzt
Police abuse in Mexico City / Carlos Silva
Pt. 3. Civil society in action in the border region
The Mexican judicial system : continuity and change in a period of democratic consolidation / Sara Schatz, Hugo Concha, Ana Laura Magaloni Kerpel
Justice reform and legal opinion : the Mexican criminal codes of 1871, 1929, and 1931 / Elisa Speckman Guerra
The role of lawyers in the Mexican justice system / Héctor Fix-Fierro
Lobbying for judicial reform : the role of the Mexican Supreme Court in institutional selection / Jeffrey K. Staton
Pt. 4. Crime and society
Citizen access and professional responsibility in the Mexican justice system / Robert M. Kossick, Jr., Rubén Minutti Z.
Unweaving the social fabric : the impact of crime on social capital / Pablo Parás
Binational civic action for accountability : antiviolence organizing in Cd. Juárez-El Paso / Kathleen Staudt, Irasema Coronado
Different but equal : access to justice for Mexico's indigenous peoples / Rosalva Aída Hernández, Héctor Ortiz Elizondo
Pt. 5. Best practices and policy recommendations
Exploring roads to police reform : six recommendations / Robert O. Varenik
Evaluating the zero tolerance strategy and its application in Mexico City / Mario Arroyo Juárez
Assessing decentralization : what role for municipal government in the administration of justice? / Allison Rowland
Public security, criminal justice, and human rights : a critique of PAN governance in Jalisco, 1995-2006 / Marcos Pablo Moloeznik
Reforming the administration of justice in Mexico : strategies and requisites / John Bailey, Wayne A. Cornelius.
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