In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy

2011 Winner of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize of the International Political Science Association Latin America’s crime rates are astonishing by any

Everyone is for "democratic policing"; everyone is against a "police state." But what do those terms mean, and what should they mean? The first half of this boo

This book contains 15 articles concerning the relationships between police, security, and democracy. The book features data on the social, official, public, and

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