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

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15n1.42944

Palabras clave:

community policing, police control, urban margins, Latin America, Carabineros police

Resumen

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.

Biografía del autor/a

Alejandra Luneke, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Departamento Sociología Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Lucia Dammert, Universidad de Santiago

Professora da Facultad Académica de Humanidades da Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH, Chile). É pesquisadora do Núcleo Milenio Autoridad y Asimetrías de Poder (Numaap/Anid, NCS17_007). Tem doutorado em ciências políticas pela Universidad de Leiden (Holanda).

Liza Zuñiga, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Pesquisadora do Centro de Estudios Justicia y Sociedad da PUCCH. É mestre em criminologia e justiça criminal pela Universidad de Edimburgo (Escócia).

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2022-01-18

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Vol. 15 Núm. 1 (2022): JAN/FEV/MAR/ABR

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