Mark Ungar is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and a professor of criminal justice at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has held several important fellowships, worked with international organizations such as the United Nations, and directed projects on community policing and on prison reform in Latin America. Ungar was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2004-5.

• List of Figures, Maps, and TablesAcronyms and AbbreviationsPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Realms of Change and Obstacles to Citizen Security ReformChapter 3. Citizen Security and DemocracyChapter 4. HondurasChapter 5. BoliviaChapter 6. ArgentinaChapter 7. Overcoming Obstacles to ReformChapter 8. ConclusionAppendix A: National Homicide Rates, 1995–2009Appendix B: Citizen Security Structures and Police RanksGlossaryReferencesIndex

"Very few scholars in the field have the grasp of recent changes in and problems of systems of citizen security in Latin America that this author has. His vision is comprehensive, extending from policing to the judiciary to the prison system." - Anthony W. Pereira, Tulane University"