Citizens, Criminalization and Violence in Natural Resource Conflicts in Latin America

Violence and Growth in Latin America

Violence and Crime in Latin America

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...

Socio-environmental and Community Forest Conflicts in Latin America

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Urban Violence and Public Health in Latin America

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 21(6):1629-1664, nov-dez, 2005 of the widest range of relations 1 in both the private and public spheres, stems from the article’s approach (unless we have misread it) to violence as a kind of disorder that parasitizes a society, that acts as foreign body in it and is therefore something to be extirpated. This point of view has consequences for the final focu...

Urban Violence and Public Health in Latin America

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España. Análisis Sociológicos Económicos Políticos, Madrid, España. [email protected] The article analyzes one of the most important and fastest-growing problems in many Latin American countries: urban violence, a problem that (as Briceño-León indicates) results directly or indirectly from rapid urban population growth rates, producing huge ur...