Police Special Operations and Armed Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro …official data on occurrence of crimes against life and crimes against property in the interval between 2007 and 2019, produced by the Instituto de Segurança Pública (ISP-RJ); 2) data on…
Super Cops, Extrajudicial Killings, and Popular Imaginaries of Policing in Facebook Groups in Nairobi …killings to “manage” violent crime. This study proposed a methodology of digital ethnographic work, surveys and textual analysis, and moving beyond a human rights discourse, to identify and explain the…
Some Things Psychologists Think They Know About Aggression and Violence …murder, robbery, assault, and rape. Although violence associated with organized crime groups and youth gangs makes some contribution to these statistics, the overwhelming majority of violent crime offences are individual…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Political Assassinations and Criminal Politics in Brazil Madeleine Hamlin (Geography, Syracuse University), Policing the Projects: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing Lotte Houwink ten Cate (History, Columbia University), Ravaged Interiors:…
Latino Violence in the United States: A Five-City Study …than any other ethnic group and have a corresponding influence on homicide. But the alleged immigration/crime link has had relatively little direct influence on Latinos. Latino homicide rates have not…
Let ‘Em Rot: Understanding Public Punitiveness and Forgiveness Toward Offenders …around crime and public opinion beyond the stereotypes that plague all sides of the debate (e.g., notions of “authoritarian, ignorant cowboys” in favor of the death penalty and “bleeding-heart elites”…
The Farm Killings …argued, was mostly manufactured by the creation of the category “farm murder” as a specific recordable crime. When the murder of farmers is placed back in its proper context and…
Desistance from Sexual Offending Across the Life Course …research for two centuries (Laws & Ward, 2011). Crime is a “young man’s game,” and the observation of natural desistance or aging out (when one stops committing crime as they…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …deal with other types of violence. In a course examining violent crime, for example, it seems natural to start with books that lay out general theories of violence, such as…
“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …provided me with a huge learning opportunity, sort of a lab to do different things, to think about what’s happening and what are the determinants of crime. If it were…
