Private Security in Guatemala: Pathway to Its Proliferation

Otto Argueta

doi:10.5771/9783845245133

Summary

Die Verbreitung privater Sicherheitsdienste deutet auf eine Schwäche staatlicher Institutionen hin und fällt zusammen mit einem Anstieg der Kriminalität. Der Autor analysiert mit dem Ansatz des historischen Institutionalismus den Entwicklungspfad der Institutionen öffentlicher Sicherheit und politischer Prozesse, um die Entstehung privater Sicherheitsdienste zu erklären. Er bietet ein analytisches Modell, das auf empirischen historischen Quellen und Interviews basiert.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-0118-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-4513-3
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Studien zu Lateinamerika
Volume: 22
Language: English
Pages: 296
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 8
List of Figures and Tables No access Pages 9 - 10
Acronyms and Abreviations No access Pages 11 - 12
1. Private Security in Contextual and Historical Analysis No access Pages 13 - 16
2. Private Securit y in the Academic Debate No access Pages 16 - 18
3. Delimitation of the Study No access Pages 18 - 19
4. Conceptual Clarifications No access Pages 19 - 21
5. The Study of Private Security in Guatemala No access Pages 21 - 23
6. Methodological Considerations No access Pages 23 - 26
7. The Data Sources No access Pages 26 - 27
8. Organization of the Study No access Pages 27 - 28
1. The Challenge of a Clear Definition No access Pages 29 - 32
2. Perspectives on Private Security Proliferation No access Pages 32 - 35
3. Private Security and Security Sector Reform No access Pages 35 - 39
4. Non-Commercial Private Security and Community Policing No access Pages 39 - 46
5. The Legacies of Militarism: Private Security in Latin America No access Pages 46 - 50
1. Private Security and Private Policing No access Pages 51 - 59
2. Private Policing and Contextual Political Analysis No access Pages 59 - 64
3. A Functional Approach of Private Policing Historical Explanation No access Pages 64 - 70
4. The Self-Reproducing Sequence of Private Security in Guatemala No access Pages 70 - 71
1. Quantification and Informal Mechanisms No access Pages 72 - 85
2. Recruiting and Professionalization No access Pages 85 - 94
3. Laws and Other State Controls No access Pages 94 - 97
4. Private Security Companies: A Security Solution? No access Pages 97 - 104
1. The Non-Commercial Side of Private Security No access Pages 105 - 108
2. The Institutional Ambiguity of Community Policing in Post-War No access Pages 108 - 121
3. The Reproductive Cycle No access Pages 121 - 130
4. Crime Rates and Community Policing No access Pages 130 - 139
5. The Historical Explanation of JLSs No access Pages 139 - 145
1. Initial Conditions and the Rupture of 1954 No access Pages 146 - 154
2. The Role of United States No access Pages 154 - 171
3. The State Roots of Private Security No access Pages 171 - 190
4. Private Policing and Civil Participation No access Pages 190 - 201
1. The Political Context No access Pages 202 - 208
2. Civilian Power and Armed Forces in a Democratic Society No access Pages 208 - 216
3. Marginalized Actors in the Security Sector Reform No access Pages 216 - 222
4. Community Policing in the Context of Self Defence Policing No access Pages 222 - 225
1. The Post-War Role of Military in Public Security No access Pages 226 - 235
2. Vigilante Policing No access Pages 235 - 246
Conclusions No access Pages 247 - 258
Bibliography No access Pages 259 - 294
Annexes No access Pages 295 - 296