Drugs and Democracy in Latin America
Drugs and Democracy in Latin America

Author: Coletta Youngers

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9781588262547

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While the U.S. has failed to reduce the supply of cocaine and heroin entering its borders, it has, however, succeeded in generating widespread, often profoundly damaging, consequences on democracy and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Challenges of Policing Democracies
Challenges of Policing Democracies

Author: Dilip Das

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 113664816X

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In this text, the editors analyze the diverse situations that police forces operate under and the challenges that they face in different kinds of democracies. This cross-cultural comparison of various systems highlights the universal observation that police are a anomaly in a democracy and explores how various influences-for example, large-scale social violence, a zeal for crime fighting, and vulnerability to temptation-often find police incapable of behaving in a democratic manner. Challenges of Policing Democracies goes beyond just showing the similarities and differences of the policing challenges democratic societies face, it also examines the responses and remedies adopted by police in various countries at different levels of democratic achievement and how every society struggles with the challenges of preserving democratic values without sacrificing the effectiveness of policing.

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America
Controversies in Innocence Cases in America

Author: Sarah Lucy Cooper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1317160037

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Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors, many of whom work on these cases daily, investigate contemporary issues presented by innocence cases and the exoneration movement as a whole. These issues include the challenges faced by the movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems associated with investigating, proving, and defining 'innocence', and theories of reform. Each issue is placed within a multi-disciplinary perspective to provide cogent observations and recommendations for the effective handling of these cases, and for what changes should be adopted in order to improve the American criminal justice system when it is faced with its most harrowing sight: an innocent defendant.