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Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard--the region's homicide rate is the world's highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for comprehensive reform and the public demand for immediate action, usually meaning iron-fisted police tactics harking back to the repressive pre-1980s dictatorships. In Policing Democracy, Mark Ungar situates Latin America at a crossroads between its longstanding form of reactive policing and a problem-oriented approach based on prevention and citizen participation. Drawing on extensive case studies from Argentina, Bolivia, and Honduras, he reviews the full spectrum of areas needing reform: criminal law, policing, investigation, trial practices, and incarceration. Finally, Policing Democracy probes democratic politics, power relations, and regional disparities of security and reform to establish a framework for understanding the crisis and moving beyond it.

Violence --- Violence --- Police --- Crime prevention --- Internal security --- Crime prevention --- Prevention. --- Citizen participation. --- History of the Americas

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Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Crime --- Commercial crime --- History --- Costs. --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social aspects --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Commercial crimes --- Corporate crime --- Crimes, Financial --- Financial crimes --- Offenses affecting the public trade

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A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from these projects were used to obtain input from the expert panel and to guide the resulting discussion.

Drug control -- Mexico. --- Drug traffic -- Mexico -- Prevention. --- Drug traffic -- Mexico. --- Violence -- Mexico. --- Violent crimes -- Mexico -- Prevention. --- Drug traffic --- Drug control --- Violence --- Violent crimes --- Internal security --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Substance Abuse --- Prevention --- Prevention. --- Security, Internal --- Crimes, Violent --- Crimes of violence --- Drug dealing --- Drug production, Illicit --- Drug smuggling --- Drug trade, Illicit --- Drug trafficking --- Drugs --- Illicit drug production --- Illicit drug trade --- Narcotic trade --- Narcotic traffic --- Narcotic trafficking --- Smuggling of drugs --- Smuggling of narcotics --- Traffic, Drug --- Trafficking in drugs --- Trafficking in narcotics --- Prices and sale --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Crime --- Drug abuse and crime --- Narco-terrorism --- E-books

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Examines the health care needs of newly released California prisoners; the communities most affected by reentry and the health care safety net of those communities; the critical roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and the effects of reentry on the children and families of incarcerated individuals. Recommends how to improve access for this population in the current fiscal environment.

Community Health Services -- California. --- Health Services Needs and Demand -- California. --- Medical Indigency -- California. --- Medically Uninsured -- California. --- Prisoners -- California. --- Socioeconomic Factors -- California. --- Persons --- Health Services --- Economics --- Population Characteristics --- Sociology --- Pacific States --- Delivery of Health Care --- Health Services Research --- Named Groups --- United States --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Care --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Health Planning --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- North America --- Americas --- Geographic Locations --- Geographicals --- Health Services Needs and Demand --- Medical Indigency --- Socioeconomic Factors --- California --- Community Health Services --- Prisoners --- Medically Uninsured --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Criminals --- Medically uninsured persons --- Rehabilitation --- Crime and criminals --- Delinquents --- Offenders --- Crime --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminology

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Although subject to little discussion, the UN has increasingly paid private military and security companies (PMSCs) for a range of services in the areas of humanitarian affairs, peacebuilding and development. However, this practice has rarely translated into coherent policies or guidelines that could guide the UN in setting standards or ensuring responsible contracting procedures. This paper explores UN demand for PMSCs and identifies the need for a more proactive, sensitive and deliberate political approach in order to avoid potential pitfalls associated with involving PMSCs in the delivery of UN tasks.

Politics & government --- Warfare & defence --- Private military companies. --- Private security services. --- Private security companies --- Private security industry --- Protection services, Private --- Security companies, Private --- Security industry, Private --- Security services, Private --- Crime prevention --- Security systems --- Police, Private --- Private military companies --- Security consultants --- Military companies, Private --- Military contractors, Private --- Military service providers --- PMCs (Private military companies) --- Private military contractors --- Contractors --- Defense contracts --- Mercenary troops --- Private security services --- security sector reform --- good governance --- private military and security companies --- security contractors --- united nations --- peacekeeping