Suchergebnisse

Effectiveness and inequality in the legal system -- Charting injustice in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay -- Informational and normative shifts across jurisdictions -- Buenos Aires : political interference and informational dependence -- São Paulo : normative autonomy and informational failures -- Uruguay : strong results from a weak system -- C"rdoba : high levels of inequality in a strong system -- Salvador da Bahia : social cleansing under political and judicial indifference -- Binding leviathan

Introduction -- Egypt -- Tunisia -- Libya -- Yemen -- Reckoning with transitional justice

Compliance and enforcement -- Measuring tax compliance in Chile and Argentina -- Taxpayers' perceptions of government enforcement -- General deterrence : impunity and sanctions in taxation -- Specific deterrence and its effects on individual compliance -- The role of trust, reciprocity, and solidarity in tax compliance -- Social mechanisms in tax evasion and tax compliance

Why do governments and militaries publicly condemn and prosecute particular forms of abuse? This article explores the Sri Lankan government's decision to promote limited legal accountability for state-perpetrated rape committed in a country otherwise renowned for widespread impunity. We argue that rather than representing a turn against impunity, the symbolic stance against conflict-related sexual violence in a small number of high-profile cases served an explicitly politico-military agenda. The state deployed legal accountability in specific cases to garner political legitimacy among key domestic audiences. The Sri Lankan government drew on the symbolism of female victimhood to mobilize support at a time when support for military counterinsurgency was waning. We show that governments can uniquely instrumentalize sexual violence cases to establish moral authority and territorial legitimacy. Through an examination of the domestic legal response to state-perpetrated human rights abuses, we illustrate the many ways in which women's bodies—and the law—can be mobilized in war to serve military ends.