TY  - GEN
AU  - Muggah,Robert
AU  - de Boer,John
TI  - Security Sector Reform and Citizen Security : Experiences from Urban Latin America in Global Perspective
SN  - bcc
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Ubiquity Press
KW  - Development studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Urban communities
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Political science & theory
KW  - Security services
KW  - Criminology: legal aspects
KW  - Security Sector Reform
KW  - Urban violence
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Citizen security
N1  - Open Access
N2  - While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform (SSR) is coming under fire. SSR theory and practice are criticized for being overly focused on traditional conflict and post-conflict settings and for being unable to adjust to unconventional settings marked by chronic crime and terrorism. SSR tends to be disproportionately focused on national institutions and less amenable to engaging at the subnational scale. Drawing on the experiences of so-called ‘citizen security’ measures in cities across Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper offers some opportunities for renewing and revitalizing SSR. The emphasis of citizen security interventions on multiple forms of insecurity, data-driven and evidence-informed prevention, the promotion of social cohesion and efficacy and designing crime prevention into the social and built environment are all insights that can positively reinforce comprehensive SSR measures in the 21st century
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22990/1/securing-the-city.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29907
ER  -