Debates and Reforms to the Police in Chile, Colombia and Ecuador: A Comparative Study

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35588/pa.v11i19.4923

Keywords:

Police, Latin America, Modernization, Reform, Human Rights violations

Abstract

Chile, Colombia and Ecuador have experienced attempts of police reform in response to the need to generate change within these institutions. This research aims to identify the events that led to police reform processes in the three cases, generating a comparison between the processes and debates around police reforms, emphasizing common actors and socio-political processes to establish convergences and differences in the reform processes. As well as contributing to a debate on police institutionality and the paradigms from which citizen security and public order are discussed, especially as a result of the human rights violations committed by the police in these countries.

Author Biographies

  • Juan Pablo González Quezada, Fundación Defensa Patrimonio del Barrio

    Sociologist from Concepción University

     

  • Javiera Paulsen Contreras

    Political scientist with a specialization in international relations from the Alberto Hurtado University

  • Constanza Sánchez Carvajal

    Political scientist from Universidad Diego Portales. Specialization in Public Interest Design, Evaluation and Managment from INAP.

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Published

2021-12-20

How to Cite

Debates and Reforms to the Police in Chile, Colombia and Ecuador: A Comparative Study. (2021). Palimpsesto, 11(19), 213-245. https://doi.org/10.35588/pa.v11i19.4923