Policing insecurity [[electronic resource] ] : police reform, security, and human rights in Latin America / / edited by Niels Uildriks

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.2098
• Soggetto topico: Police administration - Latin America; Police - Government policy - Latin America; National security - Latin America; Human rights - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: UildriksNiels A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Police reform, security and human rights in Latin America : an introduction / Niels Uildriks -- Recent police reforms in Latin America / Hugo Frühling -- On the long road to demilitarization and professionalization of the police in Brazil / Saima Husain -- Post-war violence and police reform in Guatemala / Marie-Louise Glebbeek -- International police assistance in Jamaica under escalated violence and institutionalized non-integrity / Niels Uildriks -- Police transformation and international cooperation : the Jamaican experience / Anthony Harriott -- Police and judicial reform in Chile / Lucia Dammert -- Police reform in Argentina : public security versus human rights / Mark Ungar -- Policing insecurity and police reform in Mexico City and beyond / Niels Uildriks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Profound distrust commonly characterizes not only the relationship between citizens and state institutions, but also social, as well as inter- and intra-state relations. This impacts the effectiveness and quality of the service provided by state institutions. The degree to which police and judicial reforms are able to generate trust on these fronts is therefore an important yardstick to judge their relevance under varying circumstances of 'post-authoritarian rule', but this question is largely ignored in the current literature on policing and reform. From this perspective, Policing Insecurity:
• Titolo autorizzato: Policing insecurity
• ISBN: 1-282-49394-9; 9786612493942; 0-7391-3230-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454631103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II