Mark Ungar

Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: WOODROW WILSON CTR PR
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780801898587
• ISBN-10: 0801898587
• Artikelnr.: 30367570

Autorenporträt

Mark Ungar is a professor of political science and criminal justice at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is author of Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America.