progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime … whether the policy prescriptions to reduce crime should differ for women. …In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is …

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 …

progress and social norms have freed women from the home, increasing their participation in both the labor market and the crime … whether the policy prescriptions to reduce crime should differ for women. …In recent decades, women's participation in the labor market has increased considerably in most countries and is …