U.S. Aid for Foreign Justice and Police.
The fundamental objective of the United States in its efforts to reform justice systems abroad has been to develop effective institutions of criminal justice that can support transitions to democratic government. Unfortunately, the United States has not been doing this as well as it might, Iraq bein...
| Published in: | Orbis Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 469 - 480 |
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Elsevier Science
Summer 2006
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