Mapping intersections of justice, law, and policy in Latin America: Old questions, new challenges, and emerging opportunities.

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

This panel provides an overview of new empirical studies seeking to unpack critical policy issues in Latin America associated with crime, justice, and legal reform. In particular, it draws on both comparative/regional work as well as single-country case studies to highlight dilemmas associated with the pursuit of dual institutional ambitions of “due process” and “crime-control” in prosecution, corrections and law enforcement agencies (Packer, 1964). Beyond the description of specific settings and challenges, panelists will explore how institutions in government and society have adapted to new “moral panics” tied to immigration, illegal drugs, and organized crime (Cohen, 1972).

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Criminal Policy, Criminalization, Policy of Criminal Sanctions (Criminal Law Making Policy WG)

Chair

• Andres F Rengifo, Rutgers University

Individual Presentations

• The changing face of police work in an era of expanding illegal markets - lucia dammert, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

• Tensions between procedural justice and the punitive perspective of victims’ rights in Chile - Ulda Omar Figueroa, Universidad Catolica de Chile; Sofia Dupré, Universidad Catolica de Chile - London School of Economics

• Reversing punitivism? The conditions of decarceration in Chile - Pilar Larroulet, Rutgers University; Javier Wilenmann, Law School UAI Chile

• Friends and foes: Interrogating recent trends in foreign-born populations incarcerated in Latin American prisons - Andres F Rengifo, Rutgers University