Reducing Homicide and Armed Violence: a Look at Latin America

The subject of this monographic issue is the lethal violence in Latin America, the region with the world's highest incidence of homicides. Experts do not agree on the explanation for this phenomenon, while the interventions aimed at reversing it are scarce and poorly targeted, as well as only rarely being subject to rigorous evaluation. This volume seeks to contribute to understanding the phenomenon as well as to the debate on the means of controlling it. The issues addressed by the articles include, among others, the causes of the lethal violence, the description and evaluation of national and local homicide prevention programmes, and the role of international institutions in this field. The studies use both quantitative and qualitative methodology. The countries analysed include Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and Honduras, all of which have high homicide rates. We hope to leave the reader of these pages with a deeper vision of the problem of homicide in Latin America and the ways of tackling it.

DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2017.116.2