Crime and Punishment in Latin America
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Published:2023-10-20
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Page:1-11
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ISSN:1542-4278
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Container-title:Latin American Research Review
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Lat. Am. res. rev.
Author:
Arias Enrique DesmondORCID
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.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Geography, Planning and Development,Multidisciplinary,General Arts and Humanities,History,Literature and Literary Theory,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance,Development,Anthropology,Cultural Studies,Political Science and International Relations