Policing Insecurity

Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America

Niels Uildriks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2009
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3228-9 (ISBN)

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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: Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America suggests an agenda of future reforms for the region, drawing and building upon policing reform experiences throughout the Latin America, looking at issues such as impunity, professionalization, community policing, as well as accountability and training of the police.

By explicitly linking issues of state-social trust, democratic transition, human rights, and security, these case studies provide a basis for the wider discussion in the book about prerequisites for the success or failure of police reforms, thus adding to our empirical and theoretical knowledge in these areas and introducing an important dimension to the literature on police reform, security, and human rights.

Niels Uildriks is a senior researcher and consultant at the Institute for Safety and Security and Crisis Management (COT) in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America: An Introduction
Chapter 3 Recent Police Reforms in Latin America
Chapter 4 On the Long Road to Demilitarization and Professionalization of the Police in Brazil
Chapter 5 Post-War Violence and Police Reform in Guatemala
Chapter 6 International Police Assistance in Jamaica under Escalated Violence and Institutionalized Non-Integrity
Chapter 7 Police Transformation and International Cooperation: The Jamacian Experience
Chapter 8 Police and Judicial Reform in Chile
Chapter 9 Police Reform in Argentina: Public Security versus Human Rights
Chapter 10 Policing Insecurity and Police Reform in Mexico City and Beyond

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.4.2009
Co-Autor	Lucia Dammert, Hugo Frühling, Marie-Louise Glebbeek, Anthony Harriott
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	549 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7391-3228-8 / 0739132288
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-3228-9 / 9780739132289
Zustand	Neuware