d. In the reform in Latin America, we see a tension between modernization a la
Europe, with its ideas of rights and limits to the state, and the idea of efficiency
promoted from the World Bank and the AID.
e. Reform is not domestic promoted but globally designed.
f. Law and Development are again tied in order to allow the stability of the market
and the transparency of the system. This is, development is still a rhetorical concept
that allows foreign intervention.
g. If the state is still important, this means that the site of struggle has to be, at least at
the CJS level, the state. This is what some NGOs have been doing in Colombia
through the protection of prisoner’s rights.
h. The occidentalization of subjects and the coloniality of power are twin concepts that
can be seen in the role criminal law has played with regard to the criminal justice
system. The idea of efficiency is reaching the conception of justice in the
indigenous communities.
i. The reform is tied to ALCA, but this needs further research.
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