Latin American and Caribbean societies are among the most violent on earth. The problem appears to be worsening. Why? There is not one, but several explanations accounting for the steady increases in crime and victimisation across the region. In addition to jarring inequality and chronic impunity, a major part of the problem stems from repressive and punitive approaches to tackling criminality. More positively, a new generation of home grown ‘citizen security’ measures has emerged in recent decades. These interventions expand the focus of public security measures from a narrow preoccupation with safeguarding state institutions to encompass a wider concern with preserving the safety and rights of citizens. Taken together, they include strate...
Given the strong ties linking citizen security and the development of Latin America and the Caribbea...
Latin America is one of the regions with greater levels of criminality in the world. One of the reac...
This article suggests that the lack of advancement in both the actual protection of citizens' rights...
Latin American and Caribbean societies are among the most violent on earth. The problem appears to b...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been heavily impacted by violence. For many years, the re...
While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform...
This article examines the relationship between violence, insecurity and human rights in Latin Americ...
This article critically reflects on the use of action-oriented participatory research to rethink vio...
Violence has become an increasingly serious problem in many developing countries. According to a rec...
Latin America is more democratic today than in the recent past, yet in places also far more violent....
People see insecurity as a bigger problem than the state of the economy, write Laura Jaitman and Ste...
Over the past two decades, the armed forces have increasingly been asked to take an active role in t...
América Latina y el Caribe es una de las regiones con más altos índices de violencia ydelincuencia d...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-59)El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have some of th...
Diminishing socio-economic inequality is a necessary but not sufficient condition for eliminating ot...
Given the strong ties linking citizen security and the development of Latin America and the Caribbea...
Latin America is one of the regions with greater levels of criminality in the world. One of the reac...
This article suggests that the lack of advancement in both the actual protection of citizens' rights...
Latin American and Caribbean societies are among the most violent on earth. The problem appears to b...
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been heavily impacted by violence. For many years, the re...
While widely considered a core pillar of the peace and security architecture, Security Sector Reform...
This article examines the relationship between violence, insecurity and human rights in Latin Americ...
This article critically reflects on the use of action-oriented participatory research to rethink vio...
Violence has become an increasingly serious problem in many developing countries. According to a rec...
Latin America is more democratic today than in the recent past, yet in places also far more violent....
People see insecurity as a bigger problem than the state of the economy, write Laura Jaitman and Ste...
Over the past two decades, the armed forces have increasingly been asked to take an active role in t...
América Latina y el Caribe es una de las regiones con más altos índices de violencia ydelincuencia d...
Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-59)El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have some of th...
Diminishing socio-economic inequality is a necessary but not sufficient condition for eliminating ot...
Given the strong ties linking citizen security and the development of Latin America and the Caribbea...
Latin America is one of the regions with greater levels of criminality in the world. One of the reac...
This article suggests that the lack of advancement in both the actual protection of citizens' rights...