Policing Democracy (eBook)

Mark Ungar (Autor)

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2020
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4214-2940-3 (ISBN)

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4214-2940-3 / 1421429403
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2940-3 / 9781421429403