…them as criminals and most of them experience general violence and, for girls, sexual violence tends to be the routine of life. The study argues that street life has tremendous…

The research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation enabled me to explore the history of paramilitary violence in Central Europe after the Great War. My aim was to challenge…

…violence have subsided. Eruptions of uncontrolled violence are now an obstacle to the gangs’ business aims, and the gangs try to limit fights and conflict on their territory. They have…

…be unaware of the competing projects of political or national mobilization); the middle ground (a peculiar mechanism of creative mutual misunderstanding); and criminal violence. In particular, ethnically marked criminal violence…

…20% of the male cohort still being arrested for violence in their mid-thirties. In fact, the prevalence rates of property and violence are similar throughout the twenties and thirties for…

…mission of clarifying the causes of violence,” said Joel Wallman, Director of Research. “Ethnic violence, vigilante behavior, violence against women, and armed non-state groups motivated by a political vision, illicit…

…from different locations and historical periods, they are united in studying problems of serious violence,” said HFG’s Director of Research Joel Wallman. “Some are looking at the causes of violence,…

…or developed during this project can (1) provide estimates about the intensity of violence in different locations, (2) identify hot spots for violence, (3) highlight factors that are associated with…

…increase violence in municipalities crossed by oil pipelines. At the same time, such municipalities witnessed a deterioration of socio-economic conditions as measured by infant mortality and school dropout rates. Violence…

…and death to the region. It also unleashed a wave of violence that forced local health workers to rely on militias for protection. This reliance on armed partisans in turn…