Niels Uildriks

Mexico's Unrule of Law (eBook, PDF)

Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Mexico's crisis of security is unrelenting. Why is it so hard to establish the rule of law, and why does the country's justice system continue to struggle to deliver both security and adherence to democratic values and human rights? To answer these questions, Mexico Unrule of Law: Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice reforms, placing this Mexico City case study of the social and institutional realities of the evolving police and justice system within the county's long-term transition from authoritarian to democratic governance. In spite of the democratization on the electoral front, profound distrust has continued to characterize not only the relationship between citizens and state institutions but also social, inter-state, and intra-state relations. Against this background, the book analyses extensive and penetrating police surveys and interviews to offer innovative ideas on how to simultaneously achieve greater community security, democratic policing, and adherence to human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216227472
• Artikelnr.: 75139039

Autorenporträt

Niels Uildriks is a senior researcher and consultant at the Institute for Safety and Security and Crisis Management (COT) in the Hague, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Mexican Policing and Reform: a Theoretical
Introduction Chapter 2: A Lynching of Police: A Case Study of Mexican
Policing Chapter 3: Mexico's Criminal Justice System: Organized Chaos
Chapter 4: Reducing Police Abuse: the Democratization Project Chapter
5: From Inside the Police: A Survey Chapter 6: Police and Politics: A
Legacy of Mistrust and the Failure of Reforms So Far Chapter 7: Police and
Justice Reforms, Security and Human Rights Appendix A: Methodology Appendix
B: Survey Appendix C: Open Interview Protocol