Policing Democracy
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Policing Democracy

Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America

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eBook - ePub

Policing Democracy

Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America

About this book

2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Figures, Maps, and Tables
  6. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  7. Preface
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Realms of Change and Obstacles to Citizen Security Reform
  10. 3 Citizen Security and Democracy
  11. 4 Honduras
  12. 5 Bolivia
  13. 6 Argentina
  14. 7 Overcoming Obstacles to Reform
  15. 8 Conclusion
  16. Appendix A National Homicide Rates, 1995–2009
  17. Appendix B Citizen Security Structures and Police Ranks
  18. Glossary
  19. References
  20. Index