Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing
The paper describes the process of security sector reform in Guatemala with reference to the efforts to implement community-based policing practices. The results point to the difficulties of shaking-off public understandings of security honed during the armed conflict and underscore the efforts of a...
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| description | The paper describes the process of security sector reform in Guatemala with reference to the efforts to implement community-based policing practices. The results point to the difficulties of shaking-off public understandings of security honed during the armed conflict and underscore the efforts of a still young police institution to position itself in a democratic context. The study posits that community-oriented policing strategies open opportunities to forward police reform in the high-violence, low-trust, weak-institutions, and post-conflict context of Guatemala. The argument is supported by field data gathered in indigenous territories in the Western Highlands, where traditional forms of social organization persist, and in metropolitan Villa Canales municipality, an urban, high-violence site of research. <br /> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-556fcb26682241c5ab747ec4b3f4edb12022-12-22T04:39:50ZengLibrellophJournal of Human Security1835-38002020-05-011629711010.12924/johs2021.16020097190Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented PolicingArturo Matute0Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Valley of Guatemala, Guatemala City, GuatemalaThe paper describes the process of security sector reform in Guatemala with reference to the efforts to implement community-based policing practices. The results point to the difficulties of shaking-off public understandings of security honed during the armed conflict and underscore the efforts of a still young police institution to position itself in a democratic context. The study posits that community-oriented policing strategies open opportunities to forward police reform in the high-violence, low-trust, weak-institutions, and post-conflict context of Guatemala. The argument is supported by field data gathered in indigenous territories in the Western Highlands, where traditional forms of social organization persist, and in metropolitan Villa Canales municipality, an urban, high-violence site of research. <br />http://www.librelloph.com/journalofhumansecurity/article/view/504community-oriented policingcrime preventiondemocratizationguatemalaparticipationpolice reformpost-conflict context |
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| title | Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing |
| title_full | Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing |
| title_fullStr | Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing |
| title_short | Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing |
| title_sort | possibilities of advancing police reform in guatemala through community oriented policing |
| topic | community-oriented policing crime prevention democratization guatemala participation police reform post-conflict context |
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