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UNINA9910524673903321 |
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Autore |
Ungar Mark |
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Titolo |
Policing Democracy : Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America / / Mark Ungar |
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Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiv, 389 pages) :) : illustrations, maps |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Violence - Latin America - Prevention |
Violence - Latin America |
Police - Latin America |
Crime prevention - Latin America - Citizen participation |
Internal security - Latin America |
Crime prevention - Latin America |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-365) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Realms of change and obstacles to citizen security reform -- Citizen security and democracy -- Honduras -- Bolivia -- Argentina -- Overcoming obstacles to reform. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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