Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America  discusses policing, state violence and citizenship in democracy. Looking at issues of race and class, she shows how ordinary democratic politics in unequal societies can perpetuate authoritarian policing.

Yanilda María González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America discusses policing, state violence and citizenship in democracy. Looking at issues of race and class, she shows how ordinary democratic politics in unequal societies can perpetuate authoritarian policing.

Episode 5: Violence and Democracy

Faculty Voices is produced by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Hear what Harvard faculty think about relevant topics that impact Latin America.

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Episode 5: Violence and Democracy

Episode 5: Violence and Democracy