Political Regime and the Reproduction of Violence and Criminality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Abstract

Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. vii + 158. $80.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9781498535601. This collection of books offers an opportunity to review what recent academic scholarship on violences and criminality in Latin America reveals about the role (or lack of role) political regime plays in their reproduction. 1 The books broadly cover the transitions from Southern Cone dictatorships to democracy 1 The plural form violences will be used to convey the multiple expressions of violence.