Crime and Violence in Latin America
Subtitle: Citizen Security, Democracy, and the State (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Contributors: Joseph S. Tulchin (Editor); H. Hugo Frühling (Editor); Heather Golding (Editor)
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: June 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780801873836
Subjects: American studies; Crime & criminology; Violence in society; Sociology; Criminology; Crime; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Latin America; General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Case studies; Violence; Criminal justice, Administrati; Criminal justice, Administration of
First sentence: One of the more striking features of the global community today is that large numbers of people around the world feel increasingly "insecure."