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Title:

Policing insecurity : police reform, security, and human rights in Latin America / edited by Niels Uildriks.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Police administration--Latin America.
Police--Government policy--Latin America.
National security--Latin America.
Human rights--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Uildriks, Niels A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index.

Contents:

Police reform, security and human rights in Latin America : an introduction / Niels Uildriks -- Recent police reforms in Latin America / Hugo Frühling -- On the long road to demilitarization and professionalization of the police in Brazil / Saima Husain -- Post-war violence and police reform in Guatemala / Marie-Louise Glebbeek -- International police assistance in Jamaica under escalated violence and institutionalized non-integrity / Niels Uildriks -- Police transformation and international cooperation : the Jamaican experience / Anthony Harriott -- Police and judicial reform in Chile / Lucia Dammert -- Police reform in Argentina : public security versus human rights / Mark Ungar -- Policing insecurity and police reform in Mexico City and beyond / Niels Uildriks.

ISBN:

0739132288 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739132289 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)271104722

LCCN:

2008047618

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)