This article analyses the genesis and development of citizen security policies and the construction of imaginaries on crime in Chile during the rst three democratic Governments (1990-2006). Through a qualitative discourse analysis methodology, based on a corpus consisting of primary and secondary sources, the author attempts to identify the national context factors that shaped the first citizen security policies and the discourses on crime and oenders. The text identies political and cultural elements that persist today, and that can explain the preponderance of positions close to the punitive populism in the country.
Keywords:
Citizen security, criminal policy, punitive populism, social discourse
Isla, P. (2017). Public Security and discourses of control in Chile: Analysis of public policy during the three rst post-dictatorship Governments. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 3(2), 40–63. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2017.47760
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