Description Why has violence spiked in Latin America\'s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region\'s uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational Illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control Illicit territ.
Description Why has violence spiked in Latin America\'s contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region\'s uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational Illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control Illicit territ
