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 …

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 …

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 …

Crime and violence generate many distortions in the allocation of private and public resources and engender economic …, the costs of crime represent at least 3.5% of the regional gross domestic product, twice as much as in developed countries …. Despite the magnitude of the security problem, the region is lagging in the production of rigorous research on crime and the …

The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has one of the highest levels of crime and violence in the world. While …, 2003). Crime and violence are now recognized as serious economic and social problems with very high economic and social … on the most common types of risk factors help prevent youth from becoming engaged in at-risk behavior, including crime …