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This book asks why crime and violence persist in Latin America on these 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.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America Part 1. Logics of Crime 2. Reflections on Youth, Norms, and Violence in Colombia’s Criminal Underworld 3. Gangs and Criminal Governance in El Salvador Part 2: Geographies of Violence: Urban and Rural Scenarios 4. The War on Criminality in Rio de Janeiro: Pacifying Unruly Territories? 5. Micro-dynamics and Political Economy of the Criminal War in Tierra Caliente, Mexico 6. Organized Crime and Political Mobilization along Honduras’ Drug Routes Part 3: Circulation of Policy Knowledge 7. Experts, Elites, and the Making of Safe Cities in Guatemala 8. Why does Colombia Export Security Expertise? Security Cooperation Between Status and Bureaucracy 9. Sí Ex-Militares, No Ex-Policías: Military Fetishism in Mexico’s Private Security Industry Part 4: Criminal Justice and Homicide Investigation 10. Between Delegation and Strategic Defection: Police, the Judiciary, and the Politics of Criminal Investigation in Argentina 11. On Homicide Rates: Sketching an Analytical Framework from the Brazilian Case 12. CSI in the Tropics: Evaluating Team Coordination for Homicide Investigation in Bogotá, Colombia 13. Final Remarks: Security in Latin America post COVID-19
About the author
Carlos Solar is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and a member of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Essex. Previously, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Government and Governance of Security: The Politics of Organised Crime in Chile (Routledge, 2018). His recent publications have appeared in Current Sociology, Journal of Cyber Policy, Journal of Strategic Studies, International Politics, British Politics, Latin American Policy, Policy Studies, Peace Review, Politics and Policy, Democracy and Security, and Global Crime, among other journals.
Carlos A. Pérez Ricart is an assistant professor at the Department of International Studies at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Contemporary History and Public Policy of Mexico at the University of Oxford. His recent publications include peer-reviewed articles in Global Governance, Foro Internacional, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, and "US pressure and Mexican anti-drug efforts from 1940 to 1980", in Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human rights, the Public Sphere and Justice (Routledge, 2018).
Summary
This book asks why crime and violence persist in Latin America on these 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.
