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Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America (ND Kellogg Inst Int'l Studies)

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Description for Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America (ND Kellogg Inst Int'l Studies) Paperback. Examines the question of how crime and crime fighting impact the consolidation of democracy and the rule of law in Latin America. This book evaluates broadly a relative dearth of hard data about the Latin American security situation. It is suitable for those in the fields of Latin American and comparative law, political science, and sociology. Editor(s): Bergman, Marcelo; Whitehead, Laurence. Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JKV; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.

As new democratic regimes take root in Latin America, two of the most striking developments have been a dramatic rise in crime rates and increased perception of insecurity among its citizens. The contributors to this book offer a collective assessment of some of the causes for the alarming rise in criminal activity in the region. They also explore the institutional obstacles that states confront in the effort to curb criminality and build a fairer and more efficient criminal justice system; the connections between those obstacles and larger sociopolitical patterns; and the challenges that those patterns present for the consolidation of ... Read more

The contributors to this volume are prominent scholars and specialists on the issue of citizen security. They draw on the latest methodologies and theoretical approaches to examine the question of how crime and crime fighting impact the consolidation of democracy and the rule of law in the region. These studies represent a major first step towards evaluating broadly a relative dearth of hard data about the Latin American security situation, as well as identifying future research paths. This book will be important for scholars, policy makers, and students, especially in the fields of Latin American and comparative law, political science, sociology, and criminology.

Contributors: Laurence Whitehead, Marcelo Bergman, Claudio Chaves Beato, Frederico Couto Marinho, Lucía Dammert, Mark Ungar, Hugo Frühling, Elena Azaola, Elvira María Restrepo, Luis Pásara, Ana Laura Magaloni, and John Bailey.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Condition
New
Weight
585g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268022136
SKU
V9780268022136
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About Marcelo Bergman (Ed.)
Laurence Whitehead is an Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Senior Fellow of the college, and director of the Centre for Mexican Studies at Oxford University.

Reviews for Criminality, Public Security, and the Challenge to Democracy in Latin America (ND Kellogg Inst Int'l Studies)
“The dramatic rise in reported criminality and citizen insecurity is one of the most often-mentioned yet least researched aspects of contemporary Latin America. This valuable compendium draws on recent empirical data, uneven and incomplete but nonetheless illuminating, as well as on comparative analysis, to discuss the sources and characteristics of crime in Latin America and its impact on democratization, the ... Read more

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