"What citizens can see of the state": Police and the construction of democratic citizenship in Latin America

Police exercise the state's monopoly of legitimate use of force, a fundamental state function that shapes the construction of citizenship. What are the implications for citizenship when that monopoly is profoundly contested and unevenly distributed? This article explores this question in Latin...

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Main Author: González, Yanilda (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Theoretical criminology
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