Claudio Fuentes - Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile
Published: 2004-12-26 | ISBN: 0415971691, 0415646979 | PDF | 236 pages | 1 MB
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.