Criminality, public security, and the challenge to democracy in Latin America

Criminality, public security, and the challenge to democracy in Latin America / edited by Marcelo Bergman and Laurence Whitehead.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Other Authors: Bergman, Marcelo, Whitehead, Laurence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2009.
Series:Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.
Subjects:
Criminal statistics > Latin America.
Democracy > Latin America.
Criminal statistics
Democracy
Latin America
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Regional homicide patterns in Brazil / Claudio Chaves Beato and Fredrico Couto Marinho
  • Citizen (in)security in Chile, 1980-2007: issues, trends, and challenges / Lucía Dammert
  • Rising crime in Mexico and Buenos Aires: the effects of changes in labor markets and community breakdown / Marcelo Bergman
  • La mano dura: current dilemmas in Latin American police reform / Mark Ungar
  • Public opinion and the police in Chile / Hugo Frühling
  • The weakness of public security forces and the Colombian criminal justice system / Elvira María Restrepo
  • Criminal process reform and citizen security / Luis Pásara
  • Latin America's prisons: a crisis of criminal policy and democratic rule / Mark Ungar and Ana Laura Magaloni
  • "Security traps" and democratic governability in Latin America: dynamics of crime, violence, corruption, regime, and state / John Bailey
  • Citizen insecurity and democracy: reflections on a paradoxical configuration / Laurence Whitehead.

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