I t is a little-noted fact that the world has recently undergone a momentous demographic
transition, whereby almost half of the world's population is now under the age 25, with the …

 This research deals with the topic of violent crime in urban Colombia. Although many
references are made to the conflict between the State, guerrilla groups and paramilitary …

The present article describes and analyses youth criminality in the city of Rosario, Argentina,
between 2003 and 2006. Key actors' understandings of and responses to the conflict were …

A community-based action research process, over a three-year period, employed interviews
and participant observations with five children living on the streets in Port of Spain, the …

During the last few decades, there has been a considerable increase in the level of violence
witnessed throughout the world. Violence has reached epidemic proportions and become …

In a country that contented itself with being “exceptional” among Latin American nations,
avoiding civil wars, major guerrilla movements, or a significant presence of gangs in the …

While not a new phenomenon in most of Latin America, crime and violence have increased
dramatically in recent decades and are now recognized as a serious economic and social …

Violence has been a chronic feature of Latin American and Caribbean societies. It takes
many forms and has a wide range of social, political, and economic consequences …

Startled and still a little drowsy I look around me, and realize where I am. Despite the heat,
the bumping and the shaking, I dozed off in the 639 bus, which leaves from near the San …