Policing democracy : overcoming obstacles to citizen security in Latin America
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Policing democracy : overcoming obstacles to citizen security in Latin America
Woodrow Wilson Center Press , Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Realms of Change and Obstacles to Citizen Security Reform
Chapter 3. Citizen Security and Democracy
Chapter 4. Honduras
Chapter 5. Bolivia
Chapter 6. Argentina
Chapter 7. Overcoming Obstacles to Reform
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Appendix A: National Homicide Rates, 1995-2009
Appendix B: Citizen Security Structures and Police Ranks
Glossary
References
Index
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