Title: Crime and Citizen Security in Latin America: The Challenges for New Scholarship
Abstract:Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis: Fear and Distrust. By Elvira Maria Restrepo. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 235. $95.00 cloth.) Crime and Violence in Latin America: Citizen Security, D...Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis: Fear and Distrust. By Elvira Maria Restrepo. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 235. $95.00 cloth.) Crime and Violence in Latin America: Citizen Security, Democracy, and the State. Edited by Hugo Frühling and Joseph S. Tulchin, with Heather A. Golding. (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2003. Pp. 284. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.) Crimen Sin Castigo: ProcuraciÓn de Justicia Penal y Ministerio PÚblico En Mexico. By Guillermo Zepeda Lecuona. (Mexico: CIDAC, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004. Pp. 462.) Crimen y Violencia en America Latina. Edited by Pablo Fajnzylber, Daniel Lederman, and Norman Loayza. (coedition Alfaomega and World Bank, 2001. Pp. 268. $20.00 paper.) Morir en Caracas. Edited by Roberto Briceño-León and Rogelio Pérez Perdomo (eds). (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2002. Pp. 243.) Among the most striking developments in Latin America over the last twenty years has been the dramatic rise in criminality. Homicides have more than doubled over ten years and the rate of property crime has at times been triple what it was fifteen years ago. Similar changes in the economic and political lanscape would have surely triggered a torrent of books and research interests. Yet, one of the most puzzling questions in the literature is why such a drastic deterioration in public security and rise in criminal activity have not produced a wave of new volumes in the field. The following tables briefly describe these dramatic changes. [End Page 213] Click for larger view Table 1 Changes in the Rate of Homicides (2000/1985)Read More
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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