Crime Violence and Justice in Latin America

<p>This book asks why crime and violence persist in Latin America at extreme levels and why the states have not been able to more effectively solve this problem that dominates the lives of many millions of Latin Americans.</p><p>Informed by diverse disciplinary backgrounds the book brings together a team of regional experts to discuss research-based explanations on some of Latin America’s most pressing criminal and violent issues distressing the rule of law. First it examines old and new forms of observing crime upon perpetrators and victimized communities. Second it explores the geographies of urban and rural violence and the entangled politics following organized criminality. Third it questions how the transfer of policy knowledge and expertise reshapes local security governance and more importantly critically examines the problems in implementing foreign models and paradigms in the Latin American context. Finally it exposes the everchanging scenario of policy-making and prosecuting crime and homicide.</p><p><i>Crime Violence and Justice in Latin America </i>provides new themes and novel trends on what crime and violence mean in the eyes of observers perpetrators policymakers governmental officials and victims. It is an important acquisition for policy makers and academics alike.</p>