RT Article
T1 Armed Forces, Police and Crime-fighting in Latin America  = Fuerzas armadas, policía, y la lucha contra el crimen en América Latina
A1 Carreras, Miguel
A2 Pion-Berlin, David 1952-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1588526674
AB Over the past two decades, the armed forces have increasingly been asked to take an active role in the fight against the rampant crime in Latin America. Since the militaries in this region are not always trained to conduct themselves with restraint, the possibility of excesses and human rights violations is always latent. Despite that prospect, there is a high level of public support for military counter-crime interventions throughout the region. The key argument in this article is that when the Latin American public supports military interventions to combat crime, it makes a comparative judgment call about the relative efficacy of military vs. police conduct in domestic security roles. Latin American citizens have very low confidence in the capacity of the police to fight crime effectively and to respect human rights. They place more trust in the armed forces as an institution capable of performing effectively and in accordance with human rights standards and the rule of law. This
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K1 Lateinamerika
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Tötungsdelikt
K1 Verbrechensbekämpfung
K1 Militär
K1 Polizei
K1 Korruption
K1 Menschenrechtsverletzung
K1 Innere Sicherheit
K1 authoritarian attitudes