From Social Assistance to Control in Urban Margins: Ambivalent Police Practices in Neoliberal Chile

Crime increase in Latin America has occurred in parallel with a change in police policy in territories. Along with the processes of militarization and police repression, strategies of co-production have been inspired by community policing, but the articulation of both in urban margins has been under...

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Autores: Luneke, Alejandra, Dammert, Lucia, Zuñiga, Liza
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Repositorio:Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.ufrj.br:article/42944
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/42944
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:community policing, police control, urban margins, Latin America, Carabineros police
policiamento comunitário, controle policial, margens urbanas, América Latina, polícia Carabineros
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Sumario:Crime increase in Latin America has occurred in parallel with a change in police policy in territories. Along with the processes of militarization and police repression, strategies of co-production have been inspired by community policing, but the articulation of both in urban margins has been understudied. Our hypothesis affirms the coexistence and ambivalence of both social assistance and abusive practices against the city's poor. Qualitative methods conducted in Santiago, Chile, show police policy involves both dimensions, which are strongly rooted in identity elements of the military tradition of the region's police forces.