Violence and Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comparative Study of Kingston, Jamaica …constituencies in that region have been the site of considerable electoral contestation over the past two decades. Evidence gathered suggests that what drives gang-led political violence in the two areas…
Torture, Taxes, and the Colonial State in Madras, c. 1800–1858 …nonstate responses to revenue violence are examined in a chapter on missionaries, which questions their popular image as humanitarian reformers. Finally, the adjudications of cases of revenue violence are looked…
The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakstan …both in Kazakhstan and in the West. My book, The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan, brings this largely unknown story to light, examining two interrelated questions:…
Serotonin and Impulsive Aggression: Not So Fast This article appeared in The Biology of Aggression, the Spring 1999 edition of The HFG Review, a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation publication that examined topics of violence in depth. The…
Criminal Justice Expert Greg Berman Named Inaugural Guggenheim Distinguished Fellow of Practice …recognizes a leading practitioner in one of the many fields that contend with issues of violence—including government, multilateral institutions, civil-society organizations, and journalism—to support a project examining a contemporary violence…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Renames Three Signature Awards (NEW YORK) — The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a global research foundation dedicated to the study of violence, has adopted new names for its research awards. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Research…
HFG Chair Peter O. Lawson-Johnston Passes Gavel to Longtime Board Member Peter Lawson-Johnston II …tenure, Lawson-Johnston oversaw the development of HFG from a small, family-led foundation to the preeminent philanthropic organization advancing multidisciplinary research on violence that has funded nearly 1,700 grantees in scores…
Economic Shocks, Social Insurance, and Violent Crimes: Evidence from Brazil …domestic violence by 56%. Unemployment benefits have an opposite effect on domestic violence than on any other type of crime; they increase the probability of domestic violence due to longer…
Understanding Violence and Incarceration in Africa: Evidence from British Colonies and Postcolonial States …violence in colonial prisons, to examine and explain the similarities and differences between the penal systems of British African colonies, and to trace the long-term legacies of these violent systems…
Territorial Masquerades: Violence, Paramilitaries, and Frontier State Formation in Colombia …standard explanation—across public, policy, and academic circles—of why Colombia’s frontier regions are so wracked by violence. Although Ballvé takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates that Urabá is more…
