Public security and police reform in the Americas / edited by John Bailey and Lucía Dammert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bailey, John, 1944 November 30- editor.

Dammert, Lucía, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police administration--Latin America.

Police administration.

Police administration--United States.

Police--Government policy--Latin America.

Police.

Police--Government policy--United States.

National security--Latin America.

National security.

National security--United States.

Democratization--Latin America.

Democratization.

Law reform--Latin America.

Law reform.

Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.

Latin America.

United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need to reform government policies and police procedures to combat these threats. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas examines the problems of security and how they are addressed in Latin America and the United States. Bailey and Dammert detail the wide variation in police tactics and efforts by individual nations to assess their effectiveness and ethical accountability. Policies on this issue can take the form of authoritarianism, which threatens the democratic process itself, or can, instead, work to "demilitarize" the police force. Bailey and Dammert argue that although attempts to apply generic models such as the successful "zero tolerance" created in the United States to the emerging democracies of Latin America-where institutional and economic instabilities exist-may be inappropriate, it is both possible and profitable to consider these issues from a common framework across national boundaries. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas lays the foundation for a greater understanding of policies between nations by examining their successes and failures and opens a dialogue about the common goal of public security.

Contents:

Public security and police reform in the Americas / John Bailey and Lucía Dammert

Brazil's public-security plans / Emilio Enrique Dellasoppa and Zoraia Saint'Clair Branco

Public-private partnerships for police reform in Brazil / Paulo de Mesquita Neto

From public security to citizen security in Chile / Lucía Dammert

The institutional identity of the carabineros de Chile / Azun Candina

Armed conflict and public security in Colombia / Gonzalo de Francisco Z.

Demilitarization in a war zone / María Victoria Llorente

Security policies in El Salvador, 1992-2002 / Edgardo Alberto Amaya

Violence, citizen insecurity, and elite maneuvering in El Salvador / Jose Miguel Cruz

Public security and police reform in Mexico / Marcos Pablo Moloeznik

Local responses to public insecurity in Mexico / Allison M. Rowland

From law and order to homeland security in the United States / John Bailey

Police-community conflict and crime prevention in Cincinnati, Ohio / John E. Eck and Jay Rothman

Assessing responses to public insecurity in the Americas / John Bailey and Lucía Dammert.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780822972945

0822972948

OCLC:

891395307