In the late 1990s, both governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Latin America have coined the term "citizen security" to describe their concerns with improving public safety. Broadly speaking, this term encompasses a movement away from security debates whose primary concern was threats to the state or regime toward a concern with threats to public, social and political order posed by rising common crime and public fear of crime. Across Latin America -- and in many other nations of the developing world -- fear of crime and perceptions of increasing social disorder are widespread. Anxiety about personal security is crossing boundaries of class and ideology. The failure of the state and its public order and criminal justi
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