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Crime
Scholarly Publications
Engaging, Empowering, and Enabling Youth to Lead Social Action in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
January 2020
This study is the result of over four years of active collaboration between the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (PovGov) and the Rio-based NGO Agency for Youth Networks (hereafter, Agency)....
How body-worn cameras affect the use of gunshots, stop-and searches and other forms of police behavior: A Randomized Control Trial in Rio de Janeiro
January 2020
In this paper we examine the effects of police body-worn cameras through a randomized control trial implemented in Rio de Janeiro.
Living in Fear: The Dynamics of Extortion in Mexico’s Drug War
January 2020
Why do drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) sometimes prey on the communities in which they operate but sometimes provide assistance to these communities?
Other Publications
Conference Report: Educational and Entrepreneurial Initiatives to Support Youth in Places of Violence [June 2015]
June 2017
Following in the footsteps of last year’s international conference on violence and policing in Latin American and U.S.
Conference Report: Educational and Entrepreneurial Initiatives to Support Youth in Places of Violence [June 2015]
June 2015
Following in the footsteps of last year’s international conference on violence and policing in Latin American and U.S.
Conference Report: Violence and Policing in Latin American and U.S. Cities [April 2014]
January 2015
The global cities of Latin America - Rio de Janeiro, Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Mexico City and Medellin - have become engines of economic growth.
News
The Problems of Social Order and Violence in Latin America
April 2017
This talk was given during the Stanford's "Disruption: Challenges of a New Era" conference organized by Fundacion RAP, in March 2017.
Mexico's Deathly Data
November 2016
“We found that when the government came to arrest or kill the leaders of the drug cartels . . .
$4.5 million grant to launch police reform project in Mexico
June 2016
The Program on Poverty and Governance (PovGov) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law received a $4.5 million grant from the U.S.
Events
Human Rights and Repression: Latin America in Comparative Perspective
March 5, 2019
Stanford's Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab is hosting a two day conference that seeks to advance understanding of the causes and consequences of human rights violations in both dictatorships...
Educational and Entrepreneurial Initiatives to Support Youth in Places of Violence
April 28, 2015
CONFERENCE OVERVIEWThe heavy presence of youth and young adults in the world of criminality is an issue that has been gaining increasingly more attention in the agendas of policymakers and...
The Digital Defenders of Children
February 5, 2015
AbstractThorn (www.wearethorn.org) drives technology innovation to fight child sexual exploitation.
Projects
Community Perceptions of Public Security and Policing in Rio Favelas
BACKGROUNDIn attempts to complement the ongoing work on police use of violence and the pacification policy conducted by the Program on Poverty and Governance for the past three years (for this...
English
Understanding Police Use of Force in Rio de Janeiro
BACKGROUNDIn 2008, Rio de Janeiro's government introduced an unprecedented security policy called “pacification,” a police strategy with full support from the federal government that aims to...
English
Economic Consequences of Violence
The Poverty and Governance Program has an ongoing research agenda aiming to evaluate the impact of drug-related violence on economic activity.
English
Multimedia
Between Cyclops and Leviathan: Violence, Order, and Legitimacy at the Urban Margins
April 2016
Abstract:Ongoing crises of urban insecurity in Central America have spurred novel forms of state engagement in high-risk neighbourhoods.
How Nations Succeed: Reducing Extreme Violence
January 2016
Abstract:From El Salvador to Pakistan, high levels of internal violence characterize a growing number of poorly consolidated electoral democracies.
Amy Crawford, Center for Crime Prevention and Control (John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY))
June 2015
This talk is presented in English. To view more media from the conference, please visit: http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/multimedia/povgov-conference-2015 ----Speaker Bio: Amy Crawford is the Deputy Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and...
People
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), affiliated with PovGov at CDDRL