Young Assassins of the Drug Trade
For the children of Medellin, drug trafficking brings the fantasy of wealth and the reality of death. First it becomes ...
Brazil’s Prison Debacle
In the early afternoon of February 18, 2001, during family visiting hours, the biggest prison rebellion in Brazil’s history began ...
The Rise of Crime, Disorder and Authoritarian Policing: An Introductory Essay
Last year, New York City’s famous former mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, a proponent of tough punishments for minor infractions and hard-line ...
Rio Drug Gangs Forge a Fragile Security
When armed robbers assaulted her store in Rio de Janeiro’s Flamengo neighborhood and cleaned out her entire inventory of eyeglasses ...
