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Rather than reducing criminality, prisons in Latin America drive crime by creating the conditions for its growth.

DIVEssays in collection argue that Latin American legal institutions were both mechanisms of social control and unique arenas for ordinary people to contest gov

This groundbreaking work examines Latin America's prison crisis and the failure of mass incarceration policies. As crime rates rose over the past few decades, p

The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Sao Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. Karina Bio

According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors