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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Main Author: Ungar, Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Realms of change and obstacles to citizen security reform
  • Citizen security and democracy
  • Honduras
  • Bolivia
  • Argentina
  • Overcoming obstacles to reform.