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  • Prisons and Crime in Latin America

    by Marcelo Bergman, Gustavo Fondevila ...
    This groundbreaking work examines Latin America's prison crisis and the failure of mass incarceration policies. As crime rates rose over the past few decades, policy makers adopted incarceration as the primary response to public outcry. Yet, as the number of inmates increased, crime rates only continued to grow. Presenting new cross-national data based on extensive surveys of inmates throughout ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America

    The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile

    by Marcelo Bergman ...
    Few tasks are as crucial for the future of democracy in Latin America—and, indeed, in other underdeveloped areas of the world—as strengthening the rule of law and reforming the system of taxation.In this book, Marcelo Bergman shows how success in getting citizens to pay their taxes is related intimately to the social norms that undergird the rule of law. The threat of legal sanctions is itself ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Illegal Drugs, Drug Trafficking and Violence in Latin America

    by Marcelo Bergman ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book describes the main patterns and trends of drug trafficking in Latin America and analyzes its political, economic and social effects on several countries over the last twenty years. Its aim is to provide readers an introductory yet elaborate text on the illegal drug problem in the region. It first seeks to define and measure the problem, and then discusses some of the implications that ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • More Money, More Crime

    Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America

    by Marcelo Bergman ...
    While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major political and economic gains, crime has increased in every Latin American country over the past 25 years, currently making this region the most crime-ridden and violent in the world. Over the past two decades, Latin ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • The Politics of Drug Violence

    Criminals, Cops and Politicians in Colombia and Mexico

    by Angelica Duran-Martinez ...
    Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these highly visible forms of public violence dominate headlines, they are neither the most common form of drug violence nor simply the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Macro-Criminalidad: Complejidad Y Resiliencia De Las Redes Criminales

    Caída Del Gobierno Fujimori En Perú Y Auge De “Los Zetas” En México

    by Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran, Luis J. Garay-Salamanca ...
    Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States is cutting edge research. Garay Salamanca and Salcedo-Albarn, along with their contributing authors help document the transition from economic to political imperatives within transnational drug cartels. The break from the Zetas by La Familia Michoacana is one example contained in their empirical survey. Social Network Analysis is their tool for illuminating ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mexico's Unrule of Law

    Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization

    by Niels Uildriks ...
    Mexico's crisis of security is unrelenting. Why is it so hard to establish the rule of law, and why does the country's justice system continue to struggle to deliver both security and adherence to democratic values and human rights? To answer these questions, Mexico Unrule of Law: Implementing Human Rights in Police and Judicial Reform under Democratization looks at recent Mexican criminal justice ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Maras

    Gang Violence and Security in Central America

    by Lucía Dammert, Elizabeth Skinner, Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Sensational headlines have publicized the drug trafficking, brutal violence, and other organized crime elements associated with Central America's mara gangs, but there have been few clear-eyed analyses of the history, hierarchies, and future of the mara phenomenon. The first book to look specifically at the Central American gang problem by drawing on the perspectives of researchers from different ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction

    by Nathan P. Jones ...
    Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, ... Read more

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  • Discrimination In Latin America: An Economic Perspective

    by Nopo Hugo; Chong Alberto; Moro Andrea ...
    Latin America has often been regarded as a region with deep ethnic and class conflicts. The difficulty of assessing this from an economic perspective is two fold: There is little solid, unbiased, and systematic data to provide convincing empirical evidence, and there is a dearth of empirical methods to identify specific discriminatory-based behavior as opposed to related behavior that might only ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Shadow of the Wall

    Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border

    Edited by Jeremy Slack, Daniel E. Martínez, Scott Whiteford ...
    Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees reveal in their heartwrenching stories the power of family separation and reunification and the cost ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

    Europe, Latin America, North America, and Global

    by Arun Kumar Acharya, Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Christopher Carey, Elder Cerqueira-Santos, Meredith Dank, Rosario Esteinou, Samir Goswami, Yasmina Katsulis, Silvia Koller, Dorota Lech, Jacqueline Lewis, Tami Moore, Kathleen Price, Dominique Roe-Sepowitz, Donna Sabella, Frances M. Shaver, Ada Sinacore, Lisa L. Thompson, Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Kamila Wasilkowska, Vladimir I. Zubkov ...
    This book is part of a two volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that ... Read more

    $60.79 USD