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According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors
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Crime and Violence in Latin America
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The Economics of Crime
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This title presents a survey of the crime problem in Latin America, which takes a very broad and appropriately reductionist approach to analyse the determinants