The highest rates of serious interpersonal violence occur in low-and-middle income
countries (LMICs) especially in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub–Saharan Africa …

Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its
temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneven homicide levels, this book …

Does violence lead to flight from cities in the developing world? This paper estimates the
effect of violent crime in municipalities of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala on the …

This book analyzes the origins and consequences of civil war in Central America. Fabrice
Lehoucq argues that the inability of autocracies to reform themselves led to protest and …

Anthropological critiques of urban segregation tend to maintain a horizontal frame. Walls
and gates keep undesirable people over there as opposed to here. Insightful as this …

Why are some places successful in moving from war to consolidated peace while others
continue to be troubled by violence? And why does postconflict violence take different forms …

This chapter adopts a geographical and criminological perspective to examine the world's
major cocaine smuggling routes, namely from the northwest of South America to the US and …

Trafficking is an emerging concern in West Africa that is gaining increasing attention from the
international community. This paper examines the relationship between trafficking and …

Central Americans have been fleeing the Northern Triangle. These states do not provide the
security, welfare, or freedoms that we expect of democratic regimes. Faced with the choice of …

Ever since US president Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971, different drug
control policies have been implemented in both consumer and producer countries. These …