Explore More
CloseCrime Democracy and Latin America
July 9, 2011
Mark Ungar, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College
The rising tide of violent crime in Latin American represents a threat to the region's nascent democracies. Corrupt police forces are also a challenge and the costs of an intimidated, alienated public are beyond calculation. To rectify there ills Mark Ungar proposed a range of important and related reforms and explains their urgency.