Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (xxiv, 389 pages) :)
,
illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781421428147
Content:
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.
Note:
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781421429403
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781421429403
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ungar, Mark, 1965 - Policing democracy Baltimore : The John Hopkins University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780801898020
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801898587
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
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Gewaltkriminalität
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Prävention
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Innere Sicherheit
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Bürgerbeteiligung
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Honduras
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Bolivien
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Argentinien
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Gewaltkriminalität
;
Prävention
;
Innere Sicherheit
;
Bürgerbeteiligung
