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 … also randomized $200 grants. Cash alone and therapy alone dramatically reduced crime and violence, but effects dissipated … within a year. When cash followed therapy, however, crime and violence decreased by as much as 50 percent for at least a year …

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 authors review the recent literature on crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean and present a broad … manifestations of crime and violence in Latin America. They also discuss the ways in which violence affects development, the root … causes of violence, and the empirical evidence on the determinants of crime. The authors conclude by stressing that …

different propensities for violence is better for highly and less violent children than segregating them. In particular, the …This paper provides experimental evidence of the effect of having peers with different propensities for violence in the … diverse peers in terms of violence, the study measures the effects of segregation or integration on students' behavioral …

violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and … protect women from domestic violence. Through qualitative research, this paper explores the experience of women survivors of … violence against women (VAW) in seeking help to exit abusive relationships, with the aim of identifying avenues to strengthen …

Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …

This paper analyzes the incidence and extent to which domestic violence and physical harassment on public/private buses … underreporting is over nine percentage points for domestic violence and negligible for physical harassment on public/private buses …. Urban households, especially poor urban households, tend to have higher levels of incidence of domestic violence. Further …