Violence In The Americas
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Violence In The Americas
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Author : Jonathan D Rosen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Violence In The Americas written by Jonathan D Rosen and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with categories.
Many countries throughout Latin America have experienced high levels of corruption, drug trafficking, and violence, which has created elements of fragility. The book is comprises case studies that explore the nature of violence in countries throughout the region. Moreover, it seeks to address some of the ways in which governments have sought to address violence. The cases examined in this volume are quite diverse, illustrating different types of violence as all of the countries in Latin America are not the same. Countries like Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico have high levels of drug trafficking and organized crime. Strategies designed to combat drug trafficking organization, particularly in Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, and counter-gang strategies in Central America have help foment violence as these various criminal organizations have responded to such government policies. Yet other countries, like Peru and Bolivia, have much lower levels of violence. However, the perception of insecurity is quite high despite the fact that Peru has one of the lower homicide rates in the country. On the other hand, the nature of violence in Bolivia is quite different. This country does not have a homicide rate like El Salvador, but the country has witnessed public lynchings and other forms of violence. This volume is an effort to better understand the major trends in political violence in this particularly violent region.
Violence In The Americas
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Author : César A. Chelala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Violence In The Americas written by César A. Chelala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
Too Close To Home
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Author : Andrew R. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: IDB
Release Date : 1999
Too Close To Home written by Andrew R. Morrison and has been published by IDB this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Business & Economics categories.
A collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and health costs imposed by domestic violence, documenting that domestic violence is both a serious public health issue and a severe impediment to economic development. Others examine promising approaches that have been used to combat domestic violence, including community treatment and prevention networks, telephone hotlines, judicial and police reform, anti-violence curricula in primary and secondary schools, street theatre, and creative use of the mass media. The book is based on the 1997 IDB conference, Domestic Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Costs, Programs and Policies.
Murder And Violence In Modern Latin America
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Author : Eric A. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Murder And Violence In Modern Latin America written by Eric A. Johnson and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Political Science categories.
Written by leading scholars from the Americas and Europe, this is a thorough assessment of state-supported murder and violence in Latin America. Examines the trajectory of murder and violence in the region over the past two centuries and elucidates theories and trends regarding violence since the end of colonial rule Covers topics such as “the disappeared,” the rise of drug cartels and narco-violence, physical violence against wives, the judging and sentencing of violent crimes, genocide, and state terrorism Explains and applies macro-level theories regarding the rise of civilization, state building, and violence to contemporary Latin America Demonstrates the complexity of an issue at the forefront of life and politics in the region today
Violence And Crime In Latin America
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Author : Gema Santamaría
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2017-02-21
Violence And Crime In Latin America written by Gema Santamaría and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with History categories.
According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations. Written by distinguished scholars of Latin American history, sociology, anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume range from Mexico and Argentina to Colombia and Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, addressing such issues as extralegal violence in Mexico, the myth of indigenous criminality in Guatemala, and governments’ selective blindness to violent crime in Brazil and Jamaica. The authors in this collection examine not only the social construction and political visibility of violence and crime in Latin America, but the justifications for them as well. Analytically and historically, these essays show how Latin American citizens have sanctioned criminal and violent practices and incorporated them into social relations, everyday practices, and institutional settings. At the same time, the authors explore the power struggles that inform distinctions between illegitimate versus legitimate violence. Violence and Crime in Latin America makes a substantive contribution to understanding a key problem facing Latin America today. In its historical depth and ethnographic reach, this original and thought-provoking volume enhances our understanding of crime and violence throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Citizens Of Fear
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Author : Katherine Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002
Citizens Of Fear written by Katherine Goldman and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 thousand people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story.
American Violence
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Author : Richard Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-03-07
American Violence written by Richard Hofstadter and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-07 with History categories.
With eyewitness accounts and contemporary reports—linked together by succinct analytical commentaries—Richard Hofstadter and his young collaborator, Michael Wallace, have created a superb documentary reader that is, in effect, a history of violence in America through four centuries. Here, as experienced by men and women who lived through them, are not only the familiar, chilling eruptions—Harper’s Ferry; the Civil War draft riot in New York; Homestead; Centralia; the Detroit ghetto; the assassinations of Lincoln, Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy—but also less commonly remembered episodes, such as the New York slave riots of 1712, the doctors’ riot of 1788, vigilante terror in Montana, the anti-Chinese riot in Los Angeles in 1871, and the White League coup d’état of 1874 in New Orleans. In his extensive introduction, Richard Hofstadter shows how, in the face of the record, Americans have had an extraordinary ability to persuade themselves that they are among the best-behaved and the best-regulated of peoples. With more than one hundred entries, the editors have documented and put into perspective the thread of violence in American history whose rediscovery—as Hofstadter suggests—will undoubtedly be one of the most important intellectual legacies of the 1960’s. The book clearly demonstrates, even as the reader comes to grips with long-eluded truths, that America’s consistent history of violence has not yet breached beyond hope of restoration our long record of basic political stability, that most social reforms in the United States have been brought about without violence.
Politics And History Of Violence And Crime In Central America
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Author : Sebastian Huhn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-24
Politics And History Of Violence And Crime In Central America written by Sebastian Huhn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-24 with Political Science categories.
This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as present as the increase of private security, the re-militarization of law enforcement, political populism, and mano dura policies. The contributors to this volume discuss historical forms, paths, continuities, and changes of violence and its public and political discussion in the region. This book thus offers in-depth analysis of different patterns of violence, their reproduction over time, their articulation in the present, and finally their discursive mobilization.
Strain Of Violence
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Author : Richard Maxwell Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1975-01-02
Strain Of Violence written by Richard Maxwell Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-01-02 with History categories.
These essays, written by leading historian of violence and Presidential Commission consultant Richard Maxwell Brown, consider the challenges posed to American society by the criminal, turbulent, and depressed elements of American life and the violent response of the established order. Covering violent incidents from colonial American to the present, Brown presents illuminating discussions of violence and the American Revolution, black-white conflict from slave revolts to the black ghetto riots of the 1960s, the vigilante tradition, and two of America's most violent regions--Central Texas, whic.
Crime And Violence In Latin America
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Author : H. Hugo Frühling
language : en
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Release Date : 2003-06-02
Crime And Violence In Latin America written by H. Hugo Frühling and has been published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-02 with History categories.
Offers timely discussion by attorneys, government officials, policy analysts, and academics from the United States and Latin America of the responses of the state, civil society, and the international community to threats of violence and crime.