Cops: The Rise of Crime

In April 2003, Brazil’s media convulsed with shocking and conflicting images, as they struggled to define new public debates on ...

In October 2001, just a month after the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, when questions of security were ...

Last year, New York City’s famous former mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, a proponent of tough punishments for minor infractions and hard-line ...

Looking out over the muddy banks of the Río Atrato, Mercedes tells of nightmares of mangled bodies, spiraling flames and ...

Residents of Mexico City have been suffering from a heightened sense of public insecurity for at least a decade.[1] Robberies ...

Tepito is the Casbah of Mexico City, shadowy and serpentine, its back alleys vanishing into sinister dead-ends. Here underground tunnels ...

The Colombian government and the nation’s largest paramilitary group the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) agreed on July 15 ...

They arrive from the airport every Wednesday on a government provided bus to the same central downtown destination. Tonight the ...