Description: Crime And the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1, Hardcover by Barreneche, Osvaldo, ISBN 0803213573, ISBN-13 9780803213579, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785–1853, analyzes the emergence of the criminal justice system in modern Argentina, focusing on the city of Buenos Aires as a case study. It concentrates on the formative period of the postcolonial penal system, from the installation of the second Audiencia (the superior justice tribunal in the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata) in 1785 to the promulgation of the Argentine national constitution in 1853, when a new phase of interregional organization and codification began. During this transitional period, basic features of the modern Argentine criminal justice system emerged. Osvaldo Barreneche studies these characteristics in detail: the institutional subordination of the judiciary; police interference and disruption in the relationships between the judiciary and civil society; the manipulation of the initial stages of the judicial process by senior police officers; and the use of institutionally malleable penal-legal procedures as a punitive system regardless of the judicially evaluated outcome of criminal cases. Through analysis of criminal cases, Barreneche shows how different interpretations of liberalism, the changing roles of the new police and the military, and the institutionalization of education all contributed to the debate on penal reform during Argentina’s transition from colony to state. Only through understanding the historical development of legal and criminal procedures can contemporary social scientists come to grips with the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism in modern Argentina.
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Book Title: Crime And the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785 - 1
Number of Pages: 182 Pages
Publication Name: Crime and the Administration of Justice in Buenos Aires, 1785-1853
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: General, Criminal Law / General, Penology, Latin America / South America, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Osvaldo Barreneche
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
