TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ungar,Mark
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Policing Democracy : : Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America / 
SN  - 9781421428147
AV  - HV7434.L29 U54 2011
U1  - 363.2/3098 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Violence
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Police
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Internal security
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index; Realms of change and obstacles to citizen security reform -- Citizen security and democracy -- Honduras -- Bolivia -- Argentina -- Overcoming obstacles to reform; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/60322/
ER  -