Violence at the Urban Margins

In the Americas debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live and die at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order at the margins of urban societies.