Contesting The Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile (Latin American Studies)

Claudio A. Fuentes

ISBN 10: 0415646979 / ISBN 13: 9780415646970

Editore: Routledge 2012-08-01, 2012

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• Titolo: Contesting The Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile (Latin American Studies)
• Editore: Routledge 2012-08-01
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415646979
• ISBN 13: 9780415646970
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the "civil rights" and "pro-order" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of a debate about how to deal with issues of public safety and social control and of perceived trade-offs between liberty and security.

Informazioni sull?autore

Claudio Fuentes is the Academic Coordinator at the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO-Chile).