Agencies such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
the United Nations and the World Bank continue to privilege national over municipal …

Across Latin America, societies are confronting the rise of novel orders in which state
officials and political authorities share power with criminal organizations. Criminal …

We hold many assumptions about police work—that it is the responsibility of the state, or that
police officers are given the right to kill in the name of public safety or self-defense. But in …

By January 2015 the world's richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per
cent of the world's population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in …

Las zonas relegadas del conurbano bonaerense son mundos de carencias materiales y
afectivas, universos en los que la violencia se hace presente con brutal frecuencia …

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 …

Around the world, police officers are travelling abroad to work. This might be a plane, train or
automobile journey to collect evidence on an unsolved murder. It might be a year's …

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political
ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the …

In a world of growing security challenges, non-state armed actors have captured significant
attention from scholars concerned with regime stability and the consolidation of national …

Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major
military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas …