Ungar Policing Democracy

Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2940-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ungar, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ungar, Mark
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.

Mark Ungar is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and a professor of criminal justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has held several important fellowships, worked with international organizations such as the United Nations, and directed projects on community policing and on prison reform in Latin America. Ungar was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2004–5.