Contesting the iron fist : advocacy networks and police violence in democratic Argentina and Chile /

Contesting the iron fist : advocacy networks and police violence in democratic Argentina and Chile /

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Author / Creator:Fuentes, Claudio, author.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Latin American studies : social sciences and law
Latin American studies (Routledge (Firm))
Subject:
Human rights advocacy -- Chile.
Police brutality -- Chile.
Human rights advocacy -- Argentina.
Police brutality -- Argentina.
Human rights advocacy.
Police brutality.
Argentina.
Chile.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11298448
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ISBN:0203312996
9780203312995
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0415971691
0415971691
9781135874469
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-218) and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Fuentes, Claudio. Contesting the iron fist. New York : Routledge, 2005 0415971691

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