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Policing Democracy:

Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
  • ISBN-13: 9780801898020
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Mark Ungar
  • Price: AUD $135.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2011
  • Format: Hardback 416 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Comparative politics [JPB]
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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 long-standing 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.

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Realms of Change and Obstacles to Citizen Security Reform
3. Citizen Security and Democracy
4. Honduras
5. Bolivia
6. Argentina
7. Overcoming Obstacles to Reform
8. Conclusion
Appendix A: National Homicide Rates, 1995–2009
Appendix B: Citizen Security Structures and Police Ranks
Glossary
References
Index

""Through impressively detailed case studies of the criminal justice systems and attempts at reform in Honduras, Bolivia, and Argentina, [Ungar] provides us with a much-needed understanding of what police in Latin America are doing'not, as he points out, just what the police are doing wrong... He offers some very interesting, well-researched, and innovative ways in which discretion can be integrated into both training and reforms.""

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