Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …I reviewed the causes of death for gang members in the two neighborhoods. Drugs did play a role occasionally, but were by no means the only cause of gang violence….
“Rising Violent Crime in Mexico” Panel …the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Guillermo Trejo is a co-author of the book Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico, a Professor of Political Science…
“People Who Do Harmful Things Are Reacting to Harmful Things”: A Conversation with Marlon Peterson …with alcohol, with weed, and with all these different types of opiates now. When you have those sorts of things clouding your mind, it can lead to a lot of…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century …In many countries, the supply and demand for illegal goods and services, not only drugs, creates a market controlled by criminals who need political help to “run” their business. In…
Neuropharmacology of Female Aggression …the focus on biological processes controlling aggression. Again, this has typically been a biology of male aggression. For example, we found that a member of a group of drugs called…
Violence and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Study of Kingston, Jamaica …are dominated by politically connected actors that engage in extortion as well drugs and arms trafficking. The core of impoverished areas close to the downtown business district and other older…
Two Ways Out: Christianity, Security, and Mara Salvatrucha …of the strongest networks forming in postwar Guatemala. Tens of thousands of men and women now smuggle drugs, participate in human trafficking, and control prison systems. Religion is a social…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast …addiction to gambling, drugs, sex, and food (The Craving Brain, Ronald Ruden and Marcia Byalick); that, in addition to controlling emotion, serotonin is in charge of “intellect” (Naturally Slim &…
“We Need to Value Black Lives in the Same Way That We Value Others”: A Conversation with Kami Chavis …We know that there’s an over-enforcement of certain crimes in certain areas. We know that Whites and Blacks use drugs in the same proportion. But there’s a disparity when you…
The Opioid Epidemic and Homicide …for these drugs. In this HFG Research and Policy in Brief, Joel Wallman, Richard Rosenfeld, and Randolph Roth present the results of county-level studies that assessed the association between levels…
