Latin America's crime rates are astonishing by any standard—the region's homicide rate is
the world's highest. This crisis continually traps governments between the need for …

This updated and expanded new edition continues the theme of the first edition of
emphasizing the substantial growth of street gangs throughout the world. Although a …

Since 2004, the Sage Key Approaches to Criminology series has been publishing books
that bring together distinct disciplines or fields in order to reflect and celebrate criminology's …

The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both
goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the …

Este trabajo analiza las características históricas y socioculturales de San Cristóbal de Las
Casas, Chiapas, México, ciudad sede de la Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas. Se …

En este artículo se analizan los conflictos interculturales que viven jóvenes universitarios
indígenas y mestizos que estudian en dos instituciones públicas de educación superior …

Contra el mito de que las comunidades tsotsiles y tseltales de Los Altos de Chiapas fueron
hasta años muy recientes sociedades cerradas y autosuficientes de pequeños agricultores …

Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly unravels the youth gang problem in
a multidimensional approach that encompasses the place, status, social control, subcultural …

With no local outlet to sell their corn harvests as a result of neoliberal policies, residents on
the Mexico–Guatemala border pursued an alternative strategy. They mobilized to smuggle …

This paper examines serious repeat offending among a cohort of young Indigenous
Australians dubbed the 'Gang of 49'. Drawing chiefly on interviews, we explore the …