Regional Model for a Comprehensive Violence and Crime Prevention Policy

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30/10/2015

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Violence and Crime Prevention; Regional Model; modelo regional; prevención de la violencia; prevención del delito

The main aim of this document, whose purpose is to review and analyse theoretical
and scientific developments in the public policies implemented in Latin America and
their respective legal and judicial frameworks, as well as the guidelines of international
bodies regarding violence and crime prevention, is to guide and support governments
as they create and manage their plans and actions in this area. Accordingly, and in light
of the fact that this document is consistent with the situation in the region and can be
adapted to all of the circumstances that can be found in Latin America, the participatory
nature of this process is worth highlighting. Consultative videoconference meetings
allowed the authors to find out about and take note of various practical concerns
regarding the management of violence and crime prevention measures voiced by ten
countries (Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nica
ragua, Panama and Uruguay) and four international cooperation bodies and agencies
(Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, Organization of American States, and
the United Nations Development Programme). These observations were subsequently
integrated into the document.
The Model puts forward seven processes and two conditions whose purpose is to facilitate
the identification of the circumstances, developments and requirements specific
to each country to contribute to the construction and consolidation of comprehensive
public violence and crime prevention policies.
The Model was presented at the Fourth ministerial meeting on public security,
“Towards the adoption of a Regional Model for a Comprehensive Violence and Crime
Prevention Policy”. It was at this meeting that the ministers and deputy ministers for
security, the interior and justice of 15 Latin American countries and representatives
from the European Union and international bodies signed the ‘Cartagena Declaration
on the prevention of violence’. This non-binding declaration reaffirms the political
commitment of the region’s authorities to create policies that consider the Regional
Model for a Comprehensive Violence and Crime Prevention Policy as a reference framework.
It also testifies to the continuous and functional nature of the process that is
taking place in the region, ushered in thanks to the creation of the Model.