Seguridad : crime, police power and democracy in Argentina /

"This study of police governance draws on over ninety interviews conducted with Argentine police officers. In Argentina, a rising fear of crime has led to the politics of Seguridad, a concept that amalgamates personal safety with state security. As a new governing rationale, Seguridad is streng...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seri, Guillermina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY ; London : Continuum International Publishing Group, [2012]
Subjects:
Police > Argentina.
Police power > Argentina.
Civil society > Argentina.
Police > Pouvoirs > Argentine.
Société civile > Argentine.
Political control & freedoms.
International relations.
Comparative politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Civil society.
Police power.
Police.
Argentina.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Policing Inseguridad
  • Inseguridad: How we experience it
  • Seguridad, a governmental dispositif
  • Police governance, gente and delincuentes
  • Democracy? The police, the state and their regimes
  • A sovereign's multiple heads
  • Conclusion: (Un)protecting lives.

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