Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 26,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 September 2017

This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a variety of state and non-state actors struggling to control resources,

• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1998

Crime and violence have emerged in recent years as major obstacles to development objectives in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The paper explicates an agenda for future work that

• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• File Size : 53,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 June 2017

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The magnitude of the problem is staggering and

• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• File Size : 32,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The authors examine good practice approaches in justice, health, education, and multisectoral approaches. In each sector, they identify good practices for: (1) law and policies; (2) institutional reforms; (3) community-level interventions; and (4) individual

• Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
• File Size : 49,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2003

Offers timely discussion by attorneys, government officials, policy analysts, and academics from the United States and Latin America of the responses of the state, civil society, and the international community

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2018

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the Caribbean

• Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
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• Release Date : 15 November 2015

Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the

• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 21 February 2017

According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime

• Publisher : Santiago, Chile : United Nations
• File Size : 21,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024