Roundtable: Latin American Criminology: Finding a Place Amid Global, Regional, and Local Challenges (Sponsored by Division of International Criminology)

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Criminology has experienced significant growth as a discipline in Latin America during the last twenty years. There is an expansion of empirical and applied research aiming to understand the driving factors for violence and the institutional responses to crime and justice throughout the countries across the region. Additionally, an increasing number of Latin American criminologists and scholars are working and pursuing degrees in the U.S or other countries in the global north, increasing the epistemic community in this field. This roundtable serves as a space to talk about state of the art in criminological research, relevant topics, criminal justice system reform challenges, and avenues for future research. The session combines work and experiences from a group of scholars -faculty and graduate students from different universities in the U.S and Canada- that are currently working on topics from and about Latin America. The roundtable serves as a south-south and south-north dialogue, opening epistemological pathways to more comprehensive criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area XV. Roundtable Sessions

Individual Presentations

• Analyzing public opinion data about crime and punishment in Latin America and its overarching consequences - Cecilia Chouhy, Florida State University

• Between promoting change and maintaining the status quo? Challenges to study of police reform in Latin America - Felipe Salazar, Rutgers University

• Is the use of the hotspot strategy effective in Peru? The results of the Barrio Seguro Multisectoral Strategy in the fight against crime - Wilson Hernandez, University of Pennsylvania

• Conducting crime research in collaborative criminal governance arrangements in Latin America - Carlos Ponce, University of the Fraser Valley

• Lost in publication: ¿Puedo publicar esto en inglés? - Sebastián Galleguillos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

• Assessing Forced returnee’s reintegration in El Salvador - Lidia Vásquez Rodríguez, Graduate Center, CUNY / John Jay College

Chair

• Lorena Avila Jaimes, Rutgers University, Newark

Discussant

• Daniela Kaiser, University of California, Irvine