Book presentation: Money Laundering and Organized Crime in Brazil

This book is a fundamental contribution to the increasingly specialised literature on the relationship between public policy and the judiciary in Brazil. Supported by a robust theoretical review, rigorous and transparent methodology, and careful analysis of various sources, the book narrates and explains the cycle of innovation, diffusion and dismantling of judicial specialisation in Brazil in cases of corruption, money laundering and organised crime. As part of the current debates in the comparative literature on judicial politics, the book advances the understanding of the Brazilian reality in several important directions. It analyses the adoption of the policy of judicial specialisation based on the mobilisation of actors in the judicial bureaucracy itself, describes the gradual process of multiplying specialised courts at federal and state level, and finally demonstrates how recent events - including some partially caused by judicial specialisation itself, such as Operation Car Wash - have contributed to the reflux of this model. As a result, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding the advances and setbacks of the Judiciary's actions in relation to macro-crime in Brazil.