Policing insecurity
Subtitle: police reform, security, and human rights in Latin America
By: edited by Niels Uildriks.
Contributors: Uildriks, Niels A.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739132289
Subjects: Police administration -- Latin America.; Police -- Government policy -- Latin America.; National security -- Latin America.; Human rights -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Police reform, security and human rights in Latin America : an introduction / Niels Uildriks; title: Recent police reforms in Latin America / Hugo Frühling; title: On the long road to demilitarization and professionalization of the police in Brazil / Saima Husain; title: Post-war violence and police reform in Guatemala / Marie-Louise Glebbeek; title: International police assistance in Jamaica under escalated violence and institutionalized non-integrity / Niels Uildriks; title: Police transformation and international cooperation : the Jamaican experience / Anthony Harriott; title: Police and judicial reform in Chile / Lucia Dammert; title: Police reform in Argentina : public security versus human rights / Mark Ungar; title: Policing insecurity and police reform in Mexico City and beyond / Niels Uildriks.