Public security and police reform in the Americas
By: edited by John Bailey and Lucía Dammert.
Contributors: Bailey, John, 1944 Nov. 30-; Dammert, Lucía.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Police administration -- Latin America.; Police administration -- United States.; Police -- Government policy -- Latin America.; Police -- Government policy -- United States.; National security -- Latin America.; National security -- United States.; Democratization -- Latin America.; Law reform -- Latin America.; Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public security and police reform in the Americas / John Bailey and Lucía Dammert; title: Brazil's public-security plans / Emilio Enrique Dellasoppa and Zoraia Saint'Clair Branco; title: Public-private partnerships for police reform in Brazil / Paulo de Mesquita Neto; title: From public security to citizen security in Chile / Lucía Dammert; title: The institutional identity of the carabineros de Chile / Azun Candina; title: Armed conflict and public security in Colombia / Gonzalo de Francisco Z; title: Demilitarization in a war zone / María Victoria Llorente; title: Security policies in El Salvador, 1992-2002 / Edgardo Alberto Amaya; title: Violence, citizen insecurity, and elite maneuvering in El Salvador / José Miguel Cruz; title: Public security and police reform in Mexico / Marcos Pablo Moloeznik; title: Local responses to public insecurity in Mexico / Allison M. Rowland; title: From law and order to homeland security in the United States / John Bailey; title: Police-community conflict and crime prevention in Cincinnati, Ohio / John E. Eck and Jay Rothman; title: Assessing responses to public insecurity in the Americas / John Bailey and Lucía Dammert.