Las políticas de seguridad pública en América Latina: policía, violencia y narcotráfico en México

Aguiar, José Carlos G.

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“…The high levels of overcrowding have resulted in riots, as criminal groups fight for control of illicit market operations and territory both inside and outside of the prison gates. Prisons in Mexico fail to rehabilitate inmates and operate as criminal caldrons (Aguiar, 2006; Azaola, 2007; Muñoz, 2007). Powerful criminal organizations run many prisons in Mexico and threaten guards who attempt to stop their criminal activities (Olivero, 2014; Rosen & Brienen, 2015; Ungar, 2003).…”

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Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin America: The cases of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras

Rosen

2021

Latin American Policy

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This article examines tough‐on‐crime strategies in El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. These three countries have been plagued by gangs and organized crime‐related violence. Scholars have written about the consequences of iron fist strategies, which have resulted in increasing levels of violence. This article seeks to fill a gap in the scholarly literature by examining what factors influence perceptions about tough‐on‐crime strategies, using survey data in the cases of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras. The article finds that fear is a key factor that influences support for mano dura policies.

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Section: Theoretical Approach: Fear As the Driving Forcementioning

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Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin America: The cases of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras

Rosen

2021

Latin American Policy

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“…Absorption of these codes is based on neuro-cognitive processes elicited from the perception of a reality directly internalized by the police officer and relative to their cultural context in the police organization (Aguiar, 2006;Cruz, 2007;Terrill, Paoline, & Manning, 2003). Nevertheless, one focal problem identified in police samples concerns aggressive behaviors, meaning a series of actions directed to harm others usually connected with strong sympathetic activation and emotional experiences of anger or rage which in humans implies the idea of impulsivity (Ramírez, 2003;Ramírez & Andreu, 2006;Santos, Caeiro, Ferro, Albuquerque, & Luisa Figueira, 2006;Vaughn, Howard, & Delisi, 2008) in both normal and psychopathological individuals (Alcazar-Corcoles, Verdejo-Garcia, Bouso-Saiz, & Bezos-Saldana, 2010; Arce & Santisteban, 2006;Gansler, et al, 2011).…”

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Brain Correlates of Impulsivity in Police Officers: A Neurocognitive and Ethnological Exploration

Mercadillo¹,

Barrios²

2011

TOCRIJ

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Abstract:Police represents an institution that regulates the social welfare where the officers assimilate the behavioral codes to perform their functions. One of the problems identified in the police officer's behaviors refers to aggressive expressions, probably linked with impulsive reactions. In this report, we show an exploratory study to elucidate the neurocognitive correlation of impulsivity in a Mexican sample of police officers. These neural correlates were obtained during the execution of cognitive paradigms in functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain functional data were complemented and interpreted through ethnological observations and psychometrical evaluations. Results suggest that the functional neurocognitive system regulating inhibitory reactions and impulsivity are based on moral and behavioral codes learned during the police training and practice. Aggression detected in this police department could be linked more with the perception of unfairness within the police organization but not with impulsive factors. Neurocognitive and ethnological approaches conform complementary strategies for more precise evaluation of aggressive expressions in police performance.

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Issues in Latin America. Sociocultural contrasts and their representations in contemporary literature

Ghiață¹

2020

Diacronia

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Starting with the independence process of all the territories once colonies and later, overseas territories of the different states of Western Europe, Latin America meant an association of unique paradoxes. Portugal and Spain have dominated in the past, especially from a linguistic and religious perspective,the current space that became avaried cultural environment. In this context, the aim of this study is to capture, in the introductory part, characteristics of the Latin American complex identity(reflected, for example, in the names associated with this space of civilization, in political circumstances and social issues, in particular). In addition, another purpose is to highlight the way in which these aspects are considered in the prose of modern Latin American writers, Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Héctor Abad Faciolince. At the same time,emphasizing the scourge of discrimination or inequality, but especially the perpetual violence, thestudyconcludes with a reference (also found in the literary discourse of the two texts chosen for analysis, Los sordos and El olvido que seremos) to the ethical spirit, but also to the feeling of empathy—subjects approached by both writers—in a world that seems more and more fragmented and depersonalized, as if it has been occupied by a continuous stigma of imbalance.

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Las políticas de seguridad pública en América Latina: policía, violencia y narcotráfico en México

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Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin America: The cases of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras

Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin America: The cases of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras

Brain Correlates of Impulsivity in Police Officers: A Neurocognitive and Ethnological Exploration

Issues in Latin America. Sociocultural contrasts and their representations in contemporary literature

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