Violence, Crime, and inequalities in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel explores the different ways in which inequality feeds and can be fed by economic, social, and political inequalities. It also explores how those inequalities can affect the implementation and formulation of policies aimed at reducing crime. Some papers in this panel also explore how state policies aimed at addressing such inequalities or at combatting crime can affect individual decisions to engage in crime, or to protect from it. The papers in this panel draw on a variety of disciplines (Political Science, Sociology) and a variety of methods (statistical, experimental, ethnographic), and explore different countries (Colombia, Mexico, Central America, Chile, Venezuela). This panel directly addresses LASA’s 2019 theme as it explores one of the issues -criminal violence- that most directly affects and is affected by the lack of inclusion and by the inequalities that plague Latin American societies today.

Sub Track

• Violence and Insecurities

Session Organizer

• Angélica Durán Martínez, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Chair

• Juan C Olmeda, El Colegio de México

Discussant

• Janice K Gallagher, Rutgers University-Newark

Individual Presentations

• Violence and New Forms of Urban Seclusion in Latin America - Ana Villarreal, Boston University

• Scaling up and scaling down truces and negotiations with criminal actors - Angélica Durán Martínez, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

• Can scholarships for the poor reduce deadly violence? A sub-national exploration - Daniel Zizumbo Colunga, The Center for Research and Teaching in Economics - Mexico City

• Partners against Crime: Can Political Alignment Reduce Local Crime? - Carla A Alberti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Diego Díaz Rioseco, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Giancarlo Visconti, Purdue University