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The End of the Ecuadorian Murder Miracle? From the Citizens Revolution to the Neo-Liberal Carceral State

Wed, Nov 13, 2:00 to 3:20pm, Pacific A - 4th Level

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In 2017 Ecuador had one of the lowest rates of homicide in Latin America after ten years of the Citizens’ Revolution and its progressive policies of public security. Within five years, however, the country is reporting some of the highest murder rates in the world with both the welfare state and the adjacent commitment to criminal justice reform a feint memory. In this presentation I trace the dissolution of Ecuador’s radical social democratic project and its successful progressive crime control policies by both internal and external forces wedded to neo-liberal restoration and the imperial world order. I argue that the events and processes of the Ecuadorian counter-revolution have wide-ranging empirical and theoretical lessons for all critical criminologists.

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