Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of Venezuela
This article examines the effectiveness of mano dura (heavy-handed) policies in reducing homicides by studying the case of Venezuela in the period 2012-2015 and gives particular attention to policies involving police violence. Although firm hand policies involve a set of strategies and discourses th...
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2017-09-01
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| description | This article examines the effectiveness of mano dura (heavy-handed) policies in reducing homicides by studying the case of Venezuela in the period 2012-2015 and gives particular attention to policies involving police violence. Although firm hand policies involve a set of strategies and discourses that revolve around the crime and the institutional response to it, this paper exclusively addresses police interventions that involve increased coercion and violence as a formula for tackling criminality. Over these years, policies have been tested out in Venezuela that involve greater police violence on the pretext of defeating the high levels of criminal violence. But rather than the expected effects of reducing violence and homicides, both have grown significantly. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-72ea5ea9f5174b878132f724e79598222022-12-22T00:05:34ZspaBarcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals1133-65952013-035X2017-09-0111677100doi:10.24241/rcai.2017.116.2.77Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of VenezuelaAndrés Antillano 0Keymer Ávila 1Investigador, Instituto de Ciencias Penales, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV)Investigador, Instituto de Ciencias Penales, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV)This article examines the effectiveness of mano dura (heavy-handed) policies in reducing homicides by studying the case of Venezuela in the period 2012-2015 and gives particular attention to policies involving police violence. Although firm hand policies involve a set of strategies and discourses that revolve around the crime and the institutional response to it, this paper exclusively addresses police interventions that involve increased coercion and violence as a formula for tackling criminality. Over these years, policies have been tested out in Venezuela that involve greater police violence on the pretext of defeating the high levels of criminal violence. But rather than the expected effects of reducing violence and homicides, both have grown significantly.http://www.raco.cat/index.php/RevistaCIDOB/article/view/328326/418862police violencehomicidescriminal policyinstitutional violenceVenezuela |
| spellingShingle | Andrés Antillano Keymer Ávila Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of Venezuela Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals police violence homicides criminal policy institutional violence Venezuela |
| title | Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of Venezuela |
| title_full | Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of Venezuela |
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| title_short | Do heavy-handed tactics reduce homicides? The case of Venezuela |
| title_sort | do heavy handed tactics reduce homicides the case of venezuela |
| topic | police violence homicides criminal policy institutional violence Venezuela |
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