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Patronage and Rationalization: Reform to Criminal Procedure and the Lower Courts in Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jeanne Hersant
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Abstract

This article analyzes how the lower criminal courts in Chile transitioned from an inquisitorial to an adversarial justice system between 2000 and 2005 as part of the Criminal Procedure Reform. Drawing on the frame analysis of the street-level bureaucracy and judicial ethnography, I examine the transition between two different types of judicial bureaucracy from the perspective of the actors who implemented the reform. The study is based on in-depth interviews with officials and judges of both inquisitorial and adversarial courts, administrative managers of the new courts, and actors who designed the administrative reorganization of lower criminal courts. The study involved a three-month, weekly observation in an inquisitorial court in Santiago de Chile. The article emphasizes the specificity of the Chilean judiciary, where both inquisitorial and adversarial criminal courts still coexist.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , Spring 2017 , pp. 423 - 449
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2017 

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