Volume 79, Issue 5 | Crime, Law and Social Change

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Volume 79, Issue 5

July 2023

Empirical Problems on Legal Defense in Latin America

Issue Editors:

Ludmila Ribeiro,
Gustavo Fondevila

10 articles in this issue

Legal defense in Latin America: challenges within change
Ludmila Ribeiro
Gustavo Fondevila
EditorialNotes 24 February 2023 Pages: 473 - 481
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting
Milena Ang
OriginalPaper Open access 13 February 2023 Pages: 483 - 503
“This is where I belong:” a narrative study of professional commitment to a new criminal justice agency
Isabel Arriagada
OriginalPaper 11 February 2023 Pages: 505 - 530
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense
Pablo Carvacho
OriginalPaper Open access 13 February 2023 Pages: 531 - 553
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy
Andres F. Rengifo
Lorena Avila
David Ibañez
OriginalPaper 06 February 2023 Pages: 555 - 580
The helpless defense: Notes on the role of Brazilian public defenders in sentence enforcement proceedings
Rafael Godoi
OriginalPaper 19 September 2022 Pages: 581 - 602
Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina
Pablo Ciocchini
Ezequiel Kostenwein
OriginalPaper Open access 24 August 2022 Pages: 603 - 625
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)
Fabiano Engelmann
Eduardo de Moura Menuzzi
Lucas Batista Pilau
OriginalPaper 04 February 2023 Pages: 627 - 642
From an offender-based to an offense-based justice: Changes in sentencing patterns in the juvenile justice system in São Paulo from 1990 to 2006
Thiago R. Oliveira
Marcos Cesar Alvarez
Bruna Gisi
OriginalPaper Open access 02 December 2022 Pages: 643 - 666
Defenders at Law: Assessing the performance of legal defense on Drug Trafficking cases in Brazil
Vitor Sousa Gonçalves
Lívia Bastos Lages
Victor Antunes Leocádio
OriginalPaper 08 July 2022 Pages: 667 - 689