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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第一著者: Ungar, Mark (著者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]
シリーズ:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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要約: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.
記述事項:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
物理的記述:1 online resource (416 pages): illustrations, maps
書誌:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index.
ISBN:9781421428147
アクセス:Open Access