This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitan

Offers timely discussion by attorneys, government officials, policy analysts, and academics from the United States and Latin America of the responses of the sta

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth e

Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war,