Just like nearly every aspect of human experience, crime, civil conflict, and violence have become increasingly global … Internationalization of Crime, Conflict, and Violence, offers a unified framework to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature … on crime, conflict, and violence and to discuss how the international community organizes itself to address security as a …

Although women's police centers have been gaining popularity as a measure to address domestic violence, to date no … quantitative evaluations of their impacts on the incidence of domestic violence or any other manifestations of gender equality have … most severe form of domestic violence. Given that a high fraction of female deaths among women ages 15 to 49 years can be …

The relationship between violence and chronic poverty has been studied mostly in the context of war or long …-term episodes of conflict. In contrast to previous studies, this paper explores whether violence that does not include the …. Violence is measured as the number of non-drug-related homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. A municipality is classified as …

skills and preferences reduce crime and violence. The authors recruited criminally-engaged Liberian men and randomized half …

legitimate use of violence? 2) What conceptual framework might we bring to understand the dynamics of stability and growth in … definition of the state and the focus on "monopoly of violence" in the social science literature surrounding the political …

Overview -- Organizing framework of the study and structure of the report -- Stylized facts about crime and violence in … Latin America and the Caribbean -- The transmission of violence across generations and early interventions -- Youth …, education, and brain development -- The nexus between poverty, labor markets, and crime -- Neighborhoods and urban upgrading …

as the incidence of violence. Between 2009 and 2014, El Salvador implemented the Temporary Income Support Program, which … municipal level for 2007 to 2014, with monthly data on different types of crime rates and social program benefits by … municipalities, this paper assesses the effects of the program on crime rates in municipalities in El Salvador. There are several …