Policing Democracy : Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America / / Mark Ungar.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2018 ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiv, 389 pages) :); illustrations, maps |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index. |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Mark Ungar. |