Policing Democracy : Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America /
Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard--the region's homicide rate is the world's highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics ha...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary: | Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard--the region's homicide rate is the world's highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics harking back to the repressive pre-1980s dictatorships. In Policing Democracy, Mark Ungar situates Latin America at a crossroads between its longstanding form of reactive policing and a problem-oriented approach based on prevention and citizen participation. Drawing on extensive case studies from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, he reviews the full spectrum of areas needing reform: criminal law, policing, investigation, trial practices, and incarceration. Finally, Policing Democracy probes democratic politics, power relations, and regional disparities of security and reform to establish a framework for understanding the crisis and moving beyond it. |
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| Item Description: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421428147 |
| Access: | Open Access |