Policing the Revolution: The Transformation of Coercive Power and Venezuela's Security Landscape During Chavismo (Global and Comparative Ethnography)

by Rebecca Hanson

Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed. Much has been written about the country's turn to Chavismo but scholarship has ignored what will perhaps be the revolution's most important legacy: how Chavista policies transformed coercive power and the security landscape. In Policing the Revolution, Rebecca Hanson provides the first in-depth analysis of policing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197680828
• ISBN13: 9780197680827
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"