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Citizen Security in Latin America

March 7, 2012 Comments off
Source:  Inter-American Dialog
Several indicators are used to measure insecurity, violence and crime. In assessing the status of citizen security in Latin America, this study briefly presents and discusses some of them— namely, homicide, which indicates levels of violence; victimization, which is an expression of the intensity of crimes against property; perceptions of insecurity, which refer to the level of fear in the face of criminal activities; confidence in the police agencies responsible for preventing and investigating crime; and the state of the prison system.
Categories: crime, Inter-American Dialogue, Latin America and the Caribbean, public safety
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