transformation and theinstitutionalization thereof, however, is violence against revolution's beneficiaries which canlikewise endure … violence are inherently linked, not mutually exclusive outcomes, thereby expanding our understanding of howsocial orders are …

This article describes in detail two recently enacted statutory efforts to address intimate partner violence against … women: Puerto Rico's Domestic Violence Law, ("Law 54"), and the United States federal Violence Against Women Act of 1994 … ("VAWA"). Law 54 is one of the most advanced legal efforts globally to address domestic violence through comprehensive …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil …. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to … criminal courts, use of public shelters by victims and mandatory notifications of domestic violence by health providers …

Exploiting a district level data set on the 2007/8 post-election violence in Kenya, this paper investigates why … controversial election results in December 2007, ethnic-based violence erupted in many parts of Kenya. Violence occurred more often …, only few and sporadic incidences of violence occurred. The paper attempts to explain why in areas with similar levels of …

Recent levels of violence in Mexico have caused certain of its citizens who do not hold permanent U.S. residency status … particular, it is not clear whether the tax authorities or the courts may consider violence in the person's home country in … present in the United States merely to avoid violence at home. The paper argues for such relief on the basis that imposing …

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female … unemployment increases domestic abuse. Combining data on intimate partner violence from the British Crime Survey with locally …

The epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In … youth violence has been narrowly confined with respect to race, sex, and age, but not geography. Given the volatility in the … rates of juvenile violence, forecasting rates is a risky business indeed. Effectively narrowing the range of plausible …

We develop a theoretical model to explain both the high level and persistence in gun violence for black males ages 15 … violence …