Venezuela, a Latin American rentier state, went from experiencing 11 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 1983 to 44 in 2002. My dissertation project examines why this significant increase in social violence took place by analysing the relationship between slum development and the withering of institutions of social control in the country after the 1970s. This article however only discusses the conceptual framework behind the dwindling of institutions of social control. The hypothesis of this article (and that of my dissertation) is that a Durkheimian anomic gap was fomented in the Venezuelan slums because transition to modernity (rural-to-urban migration) did not allow recreating institutions that promoted norms of social interaction, whic...
This dissertation explores the role of low-income housing in the development of two major Latin Amer...
This paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and patterns of violence in Latin America...
This article seeks to assess the geographical impact of the Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution. It co...
Venezuela, a Latin American rentier state, went from experiencing 11 homicides per 100,000 inhabitan...
This paper evaluates the criminologically ‘deviant’ case of Venezuela; in the first decade of the 21...
Darina Stoyanova shows how ineffective development promjects in Caracas affect socioeconomic inequal...
The worrisome panorama of increasing homicide rates in Venezuela requires to review critically the d...
Contemporary urban growth in many cities in Latin American and Africa has been accompanied by unprec...
textDuring the decade of 1950s, the intensive rural to urban migration, in search for new job opport...
Essa dissertação aborda a questão urbana e habitacional na Venezuela. Realiza-se investigação histór...
This dissertation focuses on how the interaction of political, economic and social factors shape the...
The character and quality of Latin America’s democracy is in dispute. Uncertainties about its nature...
The article looks to demonstrate that the model of urbanization and the configuration of the histori...
This article analyzes the changes in violence in Venezuela during the last forty years. It links the...
Despite the vast amounts of money spent on development efforts in Latin America by governments and i...
This dissertation explores the role of low-income housing in the development of two major Latin Amer...
This paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and patterns of violence in Latin America...
This article seeks to assess the geographical impact of the Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution. It co...
Venezuela, a Latin American rentier state, went from experiencing 11 homicides per 100,000 inhabitan...
This paper evaluates the criminologically ‘deviant’ case of Venezuela; in the first decade of the 21...
Darina Stoyanova shows how ineffective development promjects in Caracas affect socioeconomic inequal...
The worrisome panorama of increasing homicide rates in Venezuela requires to review critically the d...
Contemporary urban growth in many cities in Latin American and Africa has been accompanied by unprec...
textDuring the decade of 1950s, the intensive rural to urban migration, in search for new job opport...
Essa dissertação aborda a questão urbana e habitacional na Venezuela. Realiza-se investigação histór...
This dissertation focuses on how the interaction of political, economic and social factors shape the...
The character and quality of Latin America’s democracy is in dispute. Uncertainties about its nature...
The article looks to demonstrate that the model of urbanization and the configuration of the histori...
This article analyzes the changes in violence in Venezuela during the last forty years. It links the...
Despite the vast amounts of money spent on development efforts in Latin America by governments and i...
This dissertation explores the role of low-income housing in the development of two major Latin Amer...
This paper examines the relationship between neoliberalism and patterns of violence in Latin America...
This article seeks to assess the geographical impact of the Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution. It co...