| Central America Human Development Report |
Central America Human Development Report 2009-2010. Opening Spaces for citizen security and human development Opening spaces for citizen security and human development contributes from the human development paradigm to perspective, conceptual, technical and political tools in order to achieve better understanding of citizen security, a relevant problem in Central America.
The Report supports human development approach –understood as a process of a person’s expansion of opportunities - gives key elements for public policy formulation which protect Central American people from violent and dangerous crimes. CAHDR is organized in three sections. In the first, the idea of citizen (in)security and its theoretical and in value relationship with human development approach is specified, and it is proposed an analytical framework which explains the greater or lower incidence of crime in different societies. The second part offers a methodical, comprehensive diagnosis, supported by the best available evidence, which allows observing how high crime incidence IS and how its indicators have evolved in Central American countries. This Report shows the most visible crime modes and how theY operate in the region, such as, organized crime and gangs. It also gathers the least visible or invisible expressions, such as, violence against women or corruption, and analyzes the causes and differences of high crime rates among countries. Besides, in this section two, recent policies are studied, as well as citizen perception and Central American States response to insecurity challenges.
“The exits” recommended are the main topic from the third part of the Report. In this section, important reforms are presented and justified in order to attend the problem from its roots and to strengthen answer capacity form citizen security system and penal justice (SSCJP in Spanish). Prevention and control of the most complex and least visible modes of crime require specialized measurements. Since some citizen insecurities causes go beyond National frontiers, the Report also covers the roll of international cooperation. Finally, it offers a series of examples, democratic cities and countries with a successful experience in fighting citizen insecurity problems as severe as the ones Central America is living now.
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