Crime and Punishment in Latin America

Abstract

This essay reviews the following works: The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil. By Jaime Amparo Alves. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2018. Pp. 324. $27.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781517901561. Prisons and Crime in Latin America. By Marcelo Bergman and Gustavo Fondevila. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 261. $34.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108738194. The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles. By Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 285. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781479842254. Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. By Yanilda María González. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 355. $34.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108820745. Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America. By Tom Hare. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 85. $9.99 paperback. ISBN: 9780823280919. Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing the New Dirty Wars. By Luis Hernández Navarro. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 263. $29.85 paperback. ISBN: 9781469654539. A república das milícias: Dos esquadrões da morte à era Bolsonaro. By Bruno Paes Manso. São Paulo: Todavia, 2020. Pp. 304. $30.30 paperback. ISBN 9786556920610.