Full Description
This book examines how judicial reform can be effectively assessed through a procedural justice approach. It provides a practical framework for assessment of judicial reform, examining a successful reform in Chile through large scale surveys and longitudinal research.
Judicial reform is a key element to democratization and modernization processes in the developing world. Practitioners have struggled with ways to analyze the effects of judicial reform, and to define success. Procedural justice theorists propose that people will obey the law if they consider it fair; this affects willingness to collaborate with the police and the courts, and the general approach that the public has towards social regulations. Judicial reforms such as criminal procedure reforms, which explicitly guarantee the development of a fairer judicial process, represent a scenario that puts these theoretical assumptions to the test. With policy recommendations and applications for international judicial reform, this book tests the real conditions of a procedural justice approach with empirical assessment and analysis.
With implications for Latin America and countries undergoing judicial or political reforms worldwide, this book will be an important resource for researchers, policy makers and all those interested in the analysis of judicial reforms, democratization processes and the psychology of justice.
Contents
Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: An Overview of Judicial Reform in Latin America.- Chapter 3: The Analysis of Trust and Criminal Justice: Between Legitimacy and Order.- Chapter 4: The Analysis of Attitudinal Information in Crime Surveys.- Chapter 5: The Assessment of a Judicial Reform Through Public Opinion: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.- Chapter 6: An Overview of the Effects of Chilean Criminal Procedure Reform.- Chapter 7: Trust in the Criminal Justice System and Judicial Reform: A Pseudo-Panel Analysis.- Chapter 8: The Effects of Judicial Reform on Confidence and Trust in the Courts.- Chapter 9: The Effects of Judicial Reform on Confidence in Policing.- Chapter 10: Confidence in Policing and Crime Report in Chile.- Conclusions.
