When violence surges, governments often reach for the same playbook: send more police, deploy the military, increase arrests, and impose harsher penalties. But new research from the University of Geor...

Objectives Our objective was to examine the association between anti-cartel military interventions and homicide rates in Mexico. Nearly half a million people became homicide victims in Mexico in the s...

Argentina’s robbery rates are among the highest in the world, and for decades the nation has endured consistently high inflation and at times hyperinflation. There is little research on the associa...

Abstract. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) possesses 8 per cent of the global population but approximately one-third of global homicides. The region a

Abstract. Until recently, El Salvador had one of the world’s highest homicide rates, largely driven by criminal groups. Since 2003, the government attempte

Abstract. Until recently, El Salvador had one of the world’s highest homicide rates, largely driven by criminal groups. Since 2003, the government attempte