Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America

by Deborah J. Yashar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316629651
• ISBN13: 9781316629659
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 6.0"