Challenges in Crime Prevention in the Post-Conflict Context: The Guatemalan Experience

Authors

  • Esteban Benavides Yates Centro Internacional para la Prevención de la Criminalidad (CIPC) Canadá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/rpsp.v1i1.1382

Keywords:

Latin America, Crime, Guatemala, Youth, Young people, Post-conflict, Prevention (of crime, of violence), Security Sector Reform, Human Security, Citizen Security, Violence

Abstract

Crime and violence are some of the principal challenges that the countries of Latin America are currently facing. They has weakened the institutions, dismembered the social fabric, and set up obstacles to development by reducing the opportunities for education, employment and citizen participation of a generation of youth. The objective of this article is to review some of the prevention policies and initiatives that have been underway in Guatemala during the last decade, and to analyze their progress and challenges. Likewise, this article will analyze what the security needs and demands are in the population in general, and in civil society. The definitive objective of this article is to better understand the way in which prevention is implemented in post-conflict countries, what its main obstacles are, as well as its principal achievements.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5377/rpsp.v1i1.1382

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Author Biography

Esteban Benavides Yates, Centro Internacional para la Prevención de la Criminalidad (CIPC) Canadá

Sociólogo, Máster en Sociología con especialidad en Gestión Urbana de la Universidad Marc Bloch de Estrasburgo, Francia. Especialista en el área de la seguridad ciudadana y prevención de la criminalidad. En la actualidad, se desempeña como Analista y encargado de proyectos para América Latina en el Centro Internacional para la Prevención de la Criminalidad (CIPC), en Montreal, Canadá.
Policía Comunitaria y Prevención de Violencia

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Published

2014-05-09

How to Cite

Benavides Yates, E. (2014). Challenges in Crime Prevention in the Post-Conflict Context: The Guatemalan Experience. Police and Public Security Journal, 1(1), 25–54. https://doi.org/10.5377/rpsp.v1i1.1382

Issue

Año 1, Vol. 1, Diciembre 2011

Section

Academic Articles

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