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 …

desuetude insofar as it potentially covers a broader range of crimes by asking not just whether a crime has been enforced, but … constrains a judge’s analysis of a potentially dead crime to a means-end assessment under the familiar intermediate-scrutiny tier …

and piecemeal way in which suffrage was eventually won by women in European countries. Furthermore, it identifies the main … factors accounting for women's earlier or later achievement of suffrage in different European nations and, exploring the … connection between women's access to voting rights and to civil and social rights, it retells a story of women's citizenship …

We investigate the effect of Islamist terrorist activity on women's economic, political and legal position in society … groups is associated with lower levels of women's empowerment and rights. Various instrumental-variable approaches yield the … same conclusion, suggesting that the adverse effect of Islamist terrorism on women' rights is causal. Further emphasizing …