Full Description
This book discusses police education in Brazil and other countries of Latin America, with a focus on finding ways for police to maintain respect for citizenship and adhere to democratic values.
Latin America has been struggling for decades with economic vulnerabilities, extreme social inequality, and political and institutional weaknesses. As a result, the region has faced difficulties in maintaining order and democratizing due process of law. Their capacity has been limited by a lack of social legitimacy and professionalization of the States agencies, resulting from having been historically instrumentalized by dominant elites for the satisfaction of their own economic and institutional interests. Some outcomes have been the adoption by police of an adversarial view of citizens and their constitutional rights as well as high rates of police violence and lethality. This collection represents an unprecedented English-language discussion offering comparative analysis of the realities and problems of Latin America. The contributors address the complex education of police officers as well as the technical and professional capacity of police in the daily exercise of their activities.
This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners working in and around Brazilian and Latin American policing, as well as students and scholars of international law enforcement.
Contents
Introduction: Police Education in Brazil and Latin America Part 1: Police Education: An Inside and Outside View 1. New directions in the "shaping" of police identity? Perceptions of police officers - civil and military - on the impact of Master' and Doctorate' courses on the performance of police work 2.Police outsiders: the construction of deviant identities within a police corporation 3.Saluting in Democracy: Dilemmas of the Militarization of the Military Police of the State of São Paulo (PMESP) and the Carabineros of Chile 4. Obedience above all else: authority, submission, and legitimacy in police work 5. "CHARLIE MIKE": Military Songs and the Hidden Curriculum in Military Police Training 6. Autocratic Militarism and police training: Military Police performance and inequalities reproduction in Brazil Part 2: Issues and Perspectives of Police Education in Latin America 7. Innovations in Police Education in Latin America 8.Trends in Policing Education in Argentina 9.Policing models, ambivalences: the case of Chile and Colombia 10.Bachelor's Degree in Public Security at the University of Guadalajara (México) 11.The challenge of training and professionalization of police in Central America in the last decade: The cases of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala 12. Educating police for peace: a challenge in Colombia
