Public policies and safety: Violence as a public matter

Autor: David F. Fuentes Romero
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Estudios Fronterizos, Vol 4, Iss 8, Pp 13-31 (2003)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0187-6961
2395-9134
Popis: This article has as purpose to analyze the different actions addresses to control violence, whose focuses its usually being supported by criminology and judicial outlook, besides, the actions addresses to prevent it and they have been supported by epidemiology and public health. These focuses usually begin considerate as opposites positions, providen to solve the violent crime; the first one search the solutions in more police and prisons, the second one on poverty combat. One of conclusions of this article is to considerate that the best solutions to combat crime and violence in the urban centers is through of a really participation on the part of society members to the elaboration of security plans an programs as well as determine action priorities from combined way with the government.
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