"Engaging essay focuses on hypothesis that capitalist industrial conversion and technological modernization have driven Latin American crisis and promoted a new pattern of capitalist reproduction specializing in export production. Explains that development of this pattern depend…
"Engaging essay focuses on hypothesis that capitalist industrial conversion and technological modernization have driven Latin American crisis and promoted a new pattern of capitalist reproduction specializing in export production. Explains that development of this pattern depend…
While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major political and economic gains, crime has increased in every Latin American country over the past 25 ye…
Drawing on original data from surveys across Latin America, this book develops a new, compelling theory on the rise of crime in Latin America. It evaluates the economic underpinnings of the upsurge in property crime, drug trafficking, and violence in the midst of economic prospe…