Full Description
This edited collection proposes a cross-cutting discussion on the connection between three main focuses, namely, the State, Criminal Organizations, and Criminal Governance understood as an effect often seen in Latin America through the approach between the State and its public security agencies and the non-state violent actors.
State Lethality, Organized Crime, and Criminal Governance as a Political Agenda in Latin America provides the public with an updated reading of the issue of criminal violence in Latin America from a comparative perspective, exploring both the actions of non-state violent actors and, primarily, state actions as promoters, regulators, and sometimes partners of criminal actors at various levels and sectors of society and the State itself. This book presents eight chapters that aim to directly and carefully showcase distinct political, social, economic, and security scenarios in Latin America, where emblematic cases for the region are analyzed comparatively.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Civil War, Violent Actors, Peace Negotiations, and Other Conflict Endings: The Case of Colombia, Central America, and Peru
Dirk Kruijt
Chapter 2: Cursed Inheritance and New Patterns: Macrocriminality Networks, Criminal Governance, and Impunity in Mexico
Daniel Vázquez
Chapter 3: The Double Construction of Violence: Colonialism, Resistance, and the Law Michael Wilson Becerril
Chapter 4: MACCIH's Fight Against Corruption in Honduras: Mobilization and Socio-Political Conflict Around International Intervention
Miguel Gomis
Chapter 5: Public Security as an Experience of a Militarized State of Exception. An Analysis of a Police Operation in the Brazilian State of São Paulo
Eduardo Armando Medina Dyna, Carlos Henrique Serra, and Luís Antônio Francisco de Souza
Chapter 6: Security Challenges and Risks after the Signing of the Peace Agreement in Colombia Rafael Enrique Piñeros Ayala
Chapter 7: Hybrid Governance, Organized Crime, and Peace Agreement: The Case of Triple Border Area - Colombia, Brazil, and Peru
Marcial A. Garcia Suarez,; Marilia Souza Pimenta; Irene Cabrera Nossa; Rafael D. Villa
Chapter 8: Does drug Regulation have the Potential to Reduce Social and State Violence? Paulo José dos Reis Pereira and Priscila Villela
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