Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas
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Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas

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Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas

About this book

The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need to reform government policies and police procedures to combat these threats. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas examines the problems of security and how they are addressed in Latin America and the United States. Bailey and Dammert detail the wide variation in police tactics and efforts by individual nations to assess their effectiveness and ethical accountability. Policies on this issue can take the form of authoritarianism, which threatens the democratic process itself, or can, instead, work to "demilitarize" the police force. Bailey and Dammert argue that although attempts to apply generic models such as the successful "zero tolerance" created in the United States to the emerging democracies of Latin America—where institutional and economic instabilities exist—may be inappropriate, it is both possible and profitable to consider these issues from a common framework across national boundaries. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas lays the foundation for a greater understanding of policies between nations by examining their successes and failures and opens a dialogue about the common goal of public security.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Tables and Figures
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. 1. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas - John Bailey and Lucía Dammert
  6. 2. Brazil’s Public-Security Plans - Emilio Enrique Dellasoppa and Zoraia Saint’ Clair Branco
  7. 3. Public-Private Partnerships for Police Reform in Brazil - Paulo de Mesquita Neto
  8. 4. From Public Security to Citizen Security in Chile - Lucía Dammert
  9. 5. The Institutional Identity of the Carabineros de Chile - Azun Candina
  10. 6. Armed Conflict and Public Security in Colombia - Gonzalo de Francisco Z.
  11. 7. Demilitarization in a War Zone - María Victoria Llorente
  12. 8. Security Policies in El Salvador, 1992–2002 - Edgardo Alberto Amaya
  13. 9. Violence, Citizen Insecurity, and Elite Maneuvering in El Salvador - José Miguel Cruz
  14. 10. Public Security and Police Reform in Mexico - Marcos Pablo Moloeznik
  15. 11. Local Responses to Public Insecurity in Mexico - Allison M. Rowland
  16. 12. From Law and Order to Homeland Security in the United States - John Bailey
  17. 13. Police-Community Conflict and Crime Prevention in Cincinnati, Ohio - John E. Eck and Jay Rothman
  18. 14. Assessing Responses to Public Insecurity in the Americas - John Bailey and Lucía Dammert
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. List of Contributors
  22. Index