Date of Award

8-1-2013

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Organizational Unit

Josef Korbel School of International Studies

First Advisor

Arthur Gilbert, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Paul Viotti, Ph.D.

Third Advisor

Richard Clemmer-Smith

Keywords

Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Police

Abstract

This thesis examines the potential impact of community oriented policing in Latin America through a series of case studies from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and El Salvador dating from the early 1990’s to the present. They are analyzed through a typology that organizes community oriented policing strategies according to costliness to the police. Costliness is defined as the amount of power that the police have to renounce to the community to implement a certain strategy. The thesis concludes that community oriented policing is an improvement over militarized policing strategies as it has the possibility to enhance both human security and state legitimacy in the region.

Publication Statement

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Rights Holder

Gabriella A. Ippolito

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

89 p.

Discipline

Latin American studies, Political Science

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