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- Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
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2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science AssociationLatin 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
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- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xviii
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- 3. Citizen Security and Democracy
- pp. 69-104
- 4. Honduras
- pp. 105-173
- 5. Bolivia
- pp. 174-232
- 6. Argentina
- pp. 233-297
- 7. Overcoming Obstacles to Reform
- pp. 298-323
- 8. Conclusion
- pp. 324-330
- References
- pp. 343-366
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421428147
Related ISBN(s)
9780801898020, 9780801898587, 9781421429403
MARC Record
OCLC
1049797471
Pages
416
Launched on MUSE
2018-08-29
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND