Homicidal Ecologies
Homicidal Ecologies

Author: Deborah J. Yashar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1107178479

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Latin America has among the world's highest homicide rates. The author analyzes the illicit organizations, complicit and weak states, and territorial competition that generate today's violent homicidal ecologies.

Violent Crime in Post-civil War Guatemala
Violent Crime in Post-civil War Guatemala

Author: Naval Postgraduate Naval Postgraduate School

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781522986553

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Guatemala is one of the most violent countries in Latin America, and thus the world. The primary purpose of this book is to answer the following question: what factors explain the rise of violent crime in post-civil war Guatemala? The secondary focus of this book is to identify the transnational implications of Guatemala's violence for U.S. policy. Guatemala's critical security environment requires the identification of causal relationships and potential corrective actions. This work hypothesizes that the causes of violent crime in post-conflict Guatemala are the combination of weak institutional performance and social factors. Determining that Guatemala is not a consolidated democracy, this book concludes that a flawed judicial system, inadequate police reform, and weak civil control over the armed forces have a direct causal effect on violent crime in Guatemala. Furthermore, an analysis of social factors demonstrates that these are not causal in nature but rather influential elements in the occurrence of violence.

Violent Crime in Post-civil War Guatemala
Violent Crime in Post-civil War Guatemala

Author: Naval Postgraduate School

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-05-14

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781512184440

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Guatemala is one of the most violent countries in Latin America, and thus the world. The primary purpose of this thesis is to answer the following question: what factors explain the rise of violent crime in post-civil war Guatemala? The secondary focus of this thesis is to identify the transnational implications of Guatemala's violence for U.S. policy. Guatemala's critical security environment requires the identification of causal relationships and potential corrective actions. This thesis hypothesizes that the causes of violent crime in post-conflict Guatemala are the combination of weak institutional performance and social factors. Determining that Guatemala is not a consolidated democracy, this thesis concludes that a flawed judicial system, inadequate police reform, and weak civil control over the armed forces have a direct causal effect on violent crime in Guatemala. Furthermore, an analysis of social factors demonstrates that these are not causal in nature but rather influential elements in the occurrence of violence.

Enduring Violence
Enduring Violence

Author: Cecilia Menjívar

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0520948416

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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering—the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence—profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations— grounded in women’s experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today.

Countering Criminal Violence in Central America
Countering Criminal Violence in Central America

Author: Michael Shifter

Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations

Published: 2012-04

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 0876095244

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"Violent crime in Central America -- particularly in the "northern triangle" of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala -- is reaching breathtaking levels. Murder rates in the region are among the highest in the world. To a certain extent, Central America's predicament is one of geography -- it is sandwiched between some of the world's largest drug producers in South America and the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs, the United States. The region is awash in weapons and gunmen, and high rates of poverty ensure substantial numbers of willing recruits for organized crime syndicates. Weak, underfunded, and sometimes corrupt governments struggle to keep up with the challenge. Though the United States has offered substantial aid to Central American efforts to address criminal violence, it also contributes to the problem through its high levels of drug consumption, relatively relaxed gun control laws, and deportation policies that have sent home more than a million illegal migrants with violent records. This report assesses the causes and consequences of the violence faced by several Central American countries and examines the national, regional, and international efforts intended to curb its worst effects"--Page vii.

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Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0520297083

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