| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index. |
| Contents |
Realms of change and obstacles to citizen security reform -- Citizen security and democracy -- Honduras -- Bolivia -- Argentina -- Overcoming obstacles to reform. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Violence -- Latin America -- Prevention.
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Violence. |
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Latin America. |
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Violence -- Latin America.
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Police -- Latin America.
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Police. |
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Crime prevention -- Latin America -- Citizen participation.
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Crime prevention. |
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Political participation. |
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Internal security -- Latin America.
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Internal security. |
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Crime prevention -- Latin America.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 2010045411 9781421429403 |
| ISBN |
9781421428147 |
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9781421429403 |
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