We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …

All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This study integrates the … problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are …